November 1-14

Arno Babajanyan Concert Hall

GROUND FLOOR

LILIT MANARYAN | ENDLESS SUBURB

Old pastel and graphic exhibition

“Endless Suburb” is a series by Lilit Manaryan, spanning various years, featuring buildings, houses, and landscapes located beyond the closed circle of the city center. Far, far from the memorized city, from familiar ties, from daily life, closer to the equal relationship between nature and civilization, where the mind calms down and reaches a zero point. The outskirts of the city and the areas beyond it, with their reserved and liberating emptiness, have always been the author’s favorite places to walk, reflect, and find inspiration. It is in these places that several poems, written in a free style and adding flavor to the series, were created.

However, not all the images physically exist in our reality. Some are faint memories, some are visions and dreams. The Endless Suburb is not a place, but a state of mind. It is an inner geography, so vast, widespread, and boundless that one could return there for a lifetime to wander without ever getting bored. There are very few people there, rarely encountered in the twists of thought. It is the true introvert’s paradise. There are many trees, empty parks, fresh air that invites flight, solitude, and silence.

“… I often dream of the Endless Suburb. In these dreams, there are always feelings of familiarity and sadness simultaneously, as if you’ve lived your entire life in the Endless Suburb – driven a car here, though you don’t know how to drive, taken the train, played with your friends under the grapevine in the yard, gone to school, swam in the pond, sat in a café late at night – but you’ve forgotten that life and its heroes to fully live this one.

The Endless Suburb was my true home, one that doesn’t allow itself to be forgotten…”

During the evening a new piece of music for flute and piano by talented composer Vahagn Vardanian will be performed by Lilit Manaryan and the author himself.

Free Admission

Information: 8775

The State Philharmonia of Armenia

(2 Abovyan Str.)