{"id":4342,"date":"2016-07-19T21:28:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T01:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=4342"},"modified":"2018-05-21T11:11:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:11:44","slug":"farrah-karapetian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/farrah-karapetian\/","title":{"rendered":"Farrah Karapetian"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3697\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4342-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/farrahkarapetian.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/farrahkarapetian.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/farrahkarapetian.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4371 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_4469.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG_4469\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_4469.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_4469.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_4469.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_4469.jpg?resize=624%2C416&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_4469.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Farrah Karapetian (1978 US) is an artist currently based in California.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">She makes photography physical; although she works cameralessly, she believes even digital photography has a physical presence, and physical space is political space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Her methods incorporate sculptural and performative means of achieving imagery that refigures the medium of photography around bodily experience.\u00a0Her work &#8220;marries two traditions in photography \u2014 that of the staged picture and of the image made without a camera&#8221; (LA Times 2015.) Her photograms and the sculptural negatives she makes en route to their exposure move in and out of abstraction and figuration and &#8220;disrupt and call attention to our era\u2019s deeply entrenched response of permitting the constant newsfeed of documentary to slide by us as political ephemera&#8221; (Georgia Review 2015.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She has had multiple solo exhibitions and is represented by Von Lintel Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) and Danziger Gallery (New York, NY.) Her work is collected by SFMOMA and LACMA and has been shown at institutions including the George Eastman Museum and the Orange County Museum of Art. Karapetian was on residence in May 2016 in St. Petersburg, Russia, with a grant from CEC ArtsLink. In 2014, she was recognized with a California Community Foundation Mid-Career Artist Fellowship. She received a grant for Artistic Innovation from the Center for Cultural Innovation in 2012 and was a resident at the MacDowell Colony in 2010. Her writing about visual experience has been recognized not only by multiple publications but by the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program, with a grant in 2013 for her writing about the house in and as contemporary art. Her voice has been a part of panel discussions and critiques at institutions including LACMA, Princeton University, UCLA, LAXART, and the Orange County Museum of Art.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4372\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4372 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2009_Stowaway.jpg?resize=625%2C417&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2009_Stowaway\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2009_Stowaway.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2009_Stowaway.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2009_Stowaway.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2009_Stowaway.jpg?resize=624%2C416&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2009_Stowaway.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2009_Stowaway.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation Shot: Stowaway, 2009 Unique silver gelatin photogram from constructed negatives and performance six panels, 118 x 40 inches each, for a total of 10 x 20 feet. This photogram mimics the Z-Backscatter x-ray technology currently used to identify illegal immigrants inside trucks at U.S. border crossings and shows at life-size the interior of a moving van replete with V-8 engine, Mexican Coke bottles, and a man.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4373\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4373\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4373 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2012_4thWall.jpg?resize=625%2C435&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2012_4thWall\" width=\"625\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2012_4thWall.jpg?resize=1024%2C713&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2012_4thWall.jpg?resize=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2012_4thWall.jpg?resize=768%2C535&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2012_4thWall.jpg?resize=624%2C434&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2012_4thWall.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2012_4thWall.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation Shot: Fourth Wall, 2012 Unique chromogenic photograms from constructed negatives 10 x 13.3 x 8 feet. The NYTimes ran a picture in 2011 of a house devastated by a tornado in North Carolina: its roof blown off and its fourth wall blown down towards the photographer, exposing the interior of a child\u2019s bedroom, full of debris. Karapetian recognized in this picture the opportunity to describe two kinds of space through photography: illusionistic space \u2013 the room\u2019s interior \u2013 and real space \u2013 the fourth wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4374\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4374 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2015b_CallherCraft.jpg?resize=625%2C213&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2015b_CallherCraft\" width=\"625\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2015b_CallherCraft.jpg?resize=1024%2C349&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2015b_CallherCraft.jpg?resize=300%2C102&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2015b_CallherCraft.jpg?resize=768%2C262&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2015b_CallherCraft.jpg?resize=624%2C213&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2015b_CallherCraft.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2015b_CallherCraft.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unique chromogenic photogram 40 x 155 inches. To make this print, Karapetian used ice, water, multiple light sources, and a life-size digital black and white negative of a life raft that was destroyed in the process.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/farrahkarapetian.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listFarrah Karapetian (1978 US) is an artist currently based in California.\u00a0She makes photography physical; although she works cameralessly, she believes even digital photography has a physical presence, and physical space is political space. 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