Rachel Hakimian Emenaker
As an Armenian American raised between Suriname and Russia, I have always had to navigate the complexities of language, diasporas, migration, home, and globalization. My work utilizes traditional Eastern and Western methods of art and craft that have rich histories along global trade routes, such as textile and tile making, to further examine these ideas.
In my installations I reimagine architecture as more than just physical struc-tures. For me, they become symbolic spaces where histories collide and erasure and migration intersect with diasporic memory, ultimately creating something that is entirely new.
