Collage

Aram’s collages take pages from art-historical publications as both material and subject, embedding reproductions of ceramics, architectural fragments, and ornamental motifs into painted compositions. These works make his process tangible, isolating images from scholarly books and repositioning them within new artistic frameworks. Each collage reflects on how cultural objects circulate through academic discourse, transformed from lived artifacts into specimens of study. Aram treats these appropriated images not as illustrations, but as active participants in ongoing cultural conversations.

The collages underscore Aram’s sustained engagement with the mechanisms of art history, questioning how ornamental traditions have been presented, categorized, and understood within scholarly canons. By granting these images compositional weight, he dismantles hierarchies that position ornament as subsidiary to fine art. Embedded within fields of paint, these fragments collapse historical distance, suggesting that past and present practices are not discrete, but part of a continuing dialogue.