Jacques Vartabedian

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Jacques Vartabedian is a Lebanese-Armenian artist whose interdisciplinary practice encompasses painting, installation, and collaborative formats. Trained at the Lebanese Institute of Fine Arts, where he obtained both his BA and MA in Painting, his work investigates the fragility of perception and the instability of representation through a refined visual vocabulary. Drawing upon lived experience, collective memory, and political circumstance, Vartabedian constructs delicate visual worlds that challenge conventional structures of seeing and meaning. Across a consistently evolving body of work, he explores the shifting territory between figuration and abstraction, examining how form and space behave under psychological, historical, or emotional pressure. Through repetition, erasure, and spatial dislocation, he creates compositions that are at once disciplined and permeable, generating an atmosphere of quiet dissonance. His practice merges conceptual rigour with traditional craftsmanship, producing works that articulate a dialogue between inherited cultural codes and the fragmented realities of the contemporary condition. Vartabedian has exhibited internationally across the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. His work contributes to ongoing discussions on the visual politics of identity, displacement, and remembrance. He lives and works in Beirut.