Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan
This work of art is in the permanent collection of the museum. The exhibition was called Requiem for a Genocide. Artists from countries who have genocide in their history were asked to participate in this exhibition. I decided to make a piece for this show. "Saint Genocide" is inspired by a compassionate historical Armenian saint. This work of art is weaved together with Armenian cultural images of various delicacies, dancing, churches, art and the Armenian flag. Strewn among these beautiful aspects of a culture are the tragic crimes of burned bodies, decapitated heads and starving children. The hand that invoked these atrocities continues to deny culpability. This piece suggests through sublime poetry that a peoples suffering will become their key to life and a higher force shall be the undecipherable judge of the perpetrators.