VAR SAHAKYANs shortlisted portfolio on

environmental issues
www.vartist.tv

1. New York Times November 30th cover This

hypothetical NYT cover addresses the very
definition of sustainable development according
to Brundtland report .( Sustainable development is
the kind of development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs.)

In the face of COP21 meeting in Paris in

November-December 2015 this work poses
questions of urgency to the unspoken concepts
underlying all climate dialog.

2. COP21: Oceans and Markets

This work aims to visualise through abstraction
and magnification, the whole aspects of nature
at unrest and peoples priorities being
elsewhere. It invites to examine our agendas
and pay attention to what nature is telling us.

3.

Changemakers

This work is a former

DVD case that has been
painted, and populated
with cut figures that are
climbing the system,
breaking the system
with their heads. It is a
metaphor for change
and the price of
persistence that it can
be achieved.

4. EARTH
Titled as Earth this work is a combination of a
various household items come together. A
plastic lamp that has been painted over with
acrylic paint, an ice bucket turned upside down
as a pedestal and a pair of stove gloves that say
HOT on them glued to the side. During night the
lamp illuminates as if the Earth shot from space.
This work is an irony to the whole climate
change politics.

5. Titled as Was Nice meeting you this work depicts the irony of the one night stand attitude that
mankind has taken in relation to Planet Earth and its resources.

6. The Box Out series

The box out series are works where figures tell stories as their bodies relate to the space of a box
which is more than a space.

7. Reality Show

Using common objects this

work is assembled to pose the
question of whats the next
thing on TV?

8. What a Wonderful World series.

Titled as What a Wonderful World these series of portraits are meant to be portraits of the world.

To see more of Var Sahakyans works visit www.vartists.tv