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SAW THE SPLENDOR

“All around, and reaching out into the deep darkness, he saw himself.” So ends the David Lynch poem, “Dark Splendor”, that inspired the works in Saw the Splendor – Harruthoonyan’s exploration into a new world constructed from a mythical panspermia.

A Canadian immigrant at the age of seven, the artist has, like so many, navigated borders, territories and airport check points as pathways into new worlds. This world is different, as is the experience of it.

Arrival is marked by new life, as the energy existing throughout the universe is re-distributed by astroids and comets. Transition becomes a sacred space between two worlds, when a dying star releases its iron into the birth process of a cell.

The gene of the Urritopsis Dohrnii (immortal jellyfish) becomes an ever-developing landscape. A hive of butterflies is born. Through telescope and microscope, the artist marries the most majestic and minuscule of the earth’s metamorphoses into the birth of new worlds defined by the beauty of change, itself.
Harruthoonyan’s creations conjure the lifetimes that exist within moments, and the glimmers of strangeness that give pause to our ever-evolving subconscious states.

Osheen Harruthoonyan is an experimental photography-based artist working out of Montréal, Canada. He photographs using B+W film and prints on fibre based gelatin silver paper. Drawing upon his rich experiences growing up in Iran, Greece and Canada, he employs a multi-faceted approach towards his artistic practice; investigating the complex relationships between memory, history and time. Osheen’s work has been featured on the CBC, Vice, Bravo! Arts Channel, Space Channel’s InnerSPACE, and numerous national and international exhibitions and publications.