Handwritten across a 21 × 4000 cm paper roll, the phrase “I am a citizen of the Republic of Armenia” is repeated until it becomes both mantra and exhaustion. Identity here is shown as something that must be endlessly performed, constantly affirmed, yet always slipping toward failure. The act of writing highlights the fictitious and ritualized nature of citizenship, exposing it as belief rather than guarantee. In the context of neoliberal society—where cultural, social, and economic functions of the state are increasingly privatizedcitizenship becomes a fragile fiction. Artists, like citizens, are compelled to continually prove and sell themselves, mirroring the contradictions of a system that demands visibility and reproduction while producing exclusion and loss.

Medium: Paper Roll
Dimensions: 21 × 4000 cm
Date: 2014