OPENING 28.05.26 | 18:00-22:00
Hasmik Sngryan is an Armenian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Belgium, working across drawing, ceramics, and printmaking. She holds a degree from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Department of Printmaking and Drawing. Her practice explores themes of memory, displacement, and the emotional tension between fragility and resilience, often expressed through abstract and figurative forms. Her work has been exhibited in group shows across Europe, Asia, and the USA. In 2025, she was awarded the first prize of the Frans Dille Prize at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp.
In Between Spaces
Over the course of two and a half months, Hasmik created a series of one hundred soft pastel drawings. The works, arranged in pairs, form a sequence of fragments that explore how images are seen, remembered, and re-encountered over time.
The series originates from the artist’s ongoing practice of photographing her surroundings, collecting images of everyday objects, people, and places that might otherwise go unnoticed. These photographs are then translated into drawings, where the clarity of the original image gives way to a fragile, subjective reconstruction. The drawings function as glimpses that surface, dissolve, and reappear. Some are rooted in daily life; others evoke places that remain inaccessible, yet linger in memory. The themes are personal to the artist and her origin, including landscapes and scenes from Armenia, most notably the recurring presence of Mount Ararat, self-portraits viewed from changing perspectives, childhood scenes, depictions of her mother’s hands, fragments from her grandfather’s mosaic works. These elements flow seamlessly from figuration to abstraction, where reality is continuously reshaped by memory.
Rather than offering resolution, the exhibition invites a slow encounter. It asks the viewer to remain with these suspended images, to look closely and, however briefly, to feel what it might mean to see through another’s shifting, uncertain gaze.
