Facelessness and Creation: What is Areg Mirijanyan`s exhibition  about?

ArmInfo.  An exhibition by the young Armenian artist Areg Mirijanyan entitled "A Faceless Game" was held at the G. Igityan National Center. In it, the artist addresses one of the most pressing contemporary themes: the loss of  individuality in mass society.

The exhibition included paintings created primarily in the last two  years and was dedicated to a series of works featuring faceless  images.

As Mirijanyan noted in an interview with an ArmInfo correspondent,  the use of faceless images largely reflects the spirit of the times.  He specifically stated that he intends to continue this series of  works. 

Remarkably, the exhibition space was divided into two sections: the  first presents faceless, armless figures, while the second features  portraits of real individuals, primarily artists. In this way, the  artist creates a juxtaposition of two, possibly opposing, layers of  society: the faceless masses with "tied" hands, deprived of the  ability to create and limited to consumption, and individuals,  including cultural figures, who create works of art.

"If you've noticed, these paintings don't have titles-simply  'Facelessness No. 1,' 'Facelessness No. 2,' and so on. They have no  face, no title, no arms. This is done intentionally, to emphasize our  inability to create.  We are becoming a mass that merely consumes and  creates nothing. And this is countered by the portraits of artists,  directors, actors, and writers," Mirijanyan explained. Answering a  question about artificial intelligence, which to a certain extent  claims to replace artists, writers, and other creative professions,  Mirijanyan cited the idea of director and animator Yuri Norshteyn.

In an interview marking the release of his book "Snow on the Grass,"  Norshteyn noted that he often doesn't feel "asthmatic breathing" in  digital animation. "There has to be an error.

A divine error-then it will be real," he said. Areg Mirijanyan noted  that he shares this position and considers works created by  artificial intelligence to be mechanical, while works created by  humans always contain "the genius of error."

According to him, it's not just Armenian art historians who must  confront this phenomenon-it's a broader, global process. "We must  endure. Without art, humanity will perish. This is already a kind of  existential challenge." "After all, humanity and art are bordering  phenomena," the artist emphasized.

It's worth noting that "Faceless Game" is Areg Miridjanyan's fifth  exhibition. The project's producers were Elmira Soloyan and Gayane  Tadevosyan.