Mapping the Memory
The program Mapping the Memory was organised in the scope of the exhibition Sahak Poghosyan: silence of my grandmother’s eyes. It assumed eight encounters with an heir of a genocide-survivor, who would share the path of his family through a story of an object, remain (photo, jewellery…) that once belonged to their ancestors and have survived after the genocide.
In the first part of the program participants had a tour in the exhibition gallery and got familiarized with Sahak Poghosyan’s project, the main concept of the exhibition and exhibited pieces.
The second part of the program continued in CCA’s Creative Hall, where the guest of the program introduced the story of his family through a selected object endured through the genocide, after which participants had a chance to take part in a discussion about genocide and memory.
At the end of the program, the photo of the object and its story were attached to a map of historical Armenia marking the tragic pathway of a person/family deprived from his homeland during the Genocide.
The program aimed at unveiling vanishing stories about genocide-survived generation and tracing a map of memory of the Genocide. One of the main objectives of the program was to bring together different generations enhancing consciousness among younger generation as carriers of the same history and memory.