Alexanian’s practice is concerned with movement, migration and how to exist between places, carrying experiences both outwardly and inwardly. Her work reflects on objects and materials that carry traces and non-verbal narratives, giving form to experiences that cannot always be described in words.
In Slør, in English: Veil, blur or haze, Alexanian takes as a starting point the violence of a room that once was. The works are based on a video she filmed in a living room in Beirut in 2018. A still image from the video are printed on aluminium, fragmented and displaced across frames and panels. Memory and absence are central. The image moves between visibility and concealment, while the room in Beirut remains present as traces on the surface.