Anna Boghiguian on Weaving Armenia
Armenian-Egyptian artist Anna Boghiguian is presenting “Weaving Culture” at the National Gallery of Armenia in Yerevan, a project that narrates Armenia’s natural history through textiles. Curator Nairi Khatchadourian describes the approach as an “invention of the watercolor carpet,” with large, stylized suns, stars, flowers, animals, and occasional human or supernatural figures echoing but enlarging motifs found in traditional Armenian rugs. The exhibition comprises 37 rugs and three drawings arranged in three acts across contiguous halls, with works dated 2025–26, including “Man with Pomegranate and Snake” and the large tapestry “The Sound of Nature is Music.” In an interview, Boghiguian said, “The gift of being alive is developing a garden in oneself,” linking the show’s landscape-and-garden structure to personal and spiritual reflection.
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