Gohar Martirosyan a filmmaker and digital artist hailing from the post-earthquake Armenian town of Gyumri and now residing in Paris, immerses herself in the ethereal language of expended cinema. She studied under the supervision of Ben Russell, Julian Rosenfeld and Artavazd Peleshyan.
Through archival images and technological processes, her video works create a dialogue between geographies that have become inaccessible—places once inhabited by human activity. Rooted in the artist's biography, shaped by displacement since the age of three during the First Karabakh War, Gohar seeks to utopically reconstruct traces of home from small particles, fragments of what remains irretrievable. Her research focuses on uncovering stories that remain untold due to oppression or the mental avoidance of victimization. Gohar examines the complex influences that shape an individual, whether these stem from historical events, cultural practices, social connections, ecological needs, or relationships with living beings.
Gohar studied at Le Fresnoy National Studio for Contemporary Arts (FR). She is currently a resident at Fondation Fiminco and Fondation Carré sur Seine (FR). She has received the Prize Art Éco-Conception at Palais de Tokyo 2025 (FR), Studio Collector Prize 2022 (FR), Prize Enowe-Artagon 2023 (FR), արդ եւս|in view Prize by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2024 (PR) and others.
Through archival images and technological processes, her video works create a dialogue between geographies that have become inaccessible—places once inhabited by human activity. Rooted in the artist's biography, shaped by displacement since the age of three during the First Karabakh War, Gohar seeks to utopically reconstruct traces of home from small particles, fragments of what remains irretrievable. Her research focuses on uncovering stories that remain untold due to oppression or the mental avoidance of victimization. Gohar examines the complex influences that shape an individual, whether these stem from historical events, cultural practices, social connections, ecological needs, or relationships with living beings.
Gohar studied at Le Fresnoy National Studio for Contemporary Arts (FR). She is currently a resident at Fondation Fiminco and Fondation Carré sur Seine (FR). She has received the Prize Art Éco-Conception at Palais de Tokyo 2025 (FR), Studio Collector Prize 2022 (FR), Prize Enowe-Artagon 2023 (FR), արդ եւս|in view Prize by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2024 (PR) and others.
