N. Godjamanian graduated with a masters degree in Fine Art and History of Art from the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh College of Art. Their artistic practice explores their diaspora identity through mixed media and digital collages.
Godjamanian’s films are made of video and audio clips stitched together to create a new composite image which presents conflict and its journalistic portrayal through a visceral, emotional lens - highlighting the lived experience over the documentation of the event.
This piece is an afterimage* of displacement. The television screen shows footage taken from a documentary reporting on the 1974 Invasion of Cyprus and edited to express a woman’s grief after the loss of her home. Behind her, footage from the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war shows a news clip of a house burning down - the inhabitants have set their home on fire so that no one else could claim it as they are exiled from their land.
*An afterimage is an image that continues to appear in the eyes after a period of exposure to the original image.
