Tufenkian Fine Art Gallery in Glendale, CA, presents “Mirror”, an interactive exhibit and book that merges photography by artist Ara Oshagan and music by Gor Mkhitarian, the Armenian Weekly reports.
Employing the latest interactive technology, a free mobile app enables the audience to hear Mkhitarian’s music on their phone while viewing Oshagan’s photographs. The collaboration of “Mirror” bridges the worlds of visual and sound art.
The exhibit, which runs from Feb 20 to March 12, will also include an “immersive” installation in the gallery’s project room. The opening reception will feature a concert by Mkhitarian and a book signing.
The music in “Mirror” is a selection of songs that Mkhitarian created over a 10-year period. During the same period, Oshagan photographed Mkhitarian and his band while they rehearsed, recorded, and performed this music. Mixing color and black/white photographs, single images, diptychs, and triptychs, Oshagan constructs a layered visual narrative not only of Mkhitarian and his band but also the spaces out of which they create music. “Mirror” couples the images of these temporary spaces with the music that was created from these very spaces.
“We are very excited to be showing an interactive and collaborative project like ‘Mirror,’” said gallery director and owner Caroline Tufenkian. “Work like this can open new doors of artistic exploration. Oshagan and Mkhitarian are using technology to bring the universes of visual and sound art closer together and we want our audience to engage in the possibilities they are presenting.”