Assembly of human being by Diana Arutyunyan
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Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 80 x 80 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $2500.00 USD
Status: available
This work explores the process of becoming — the way a human identity is assembled through experiences, emotions, memories, wounds, and moments of awakening. Geometric structures represent the frameworks we build to understand ourselves, while fluid forms move beyond rigid definitions, reflecting the ever-changing nature of human consciousness. Fragments of a face emerge and dissolve throughout the composition, suggesting that the self is not fixed but constantly reconstructed. Dark central forms symbolize the emotional core where transformation takes place, while circular elements evoke cycles of awareness, growth, and self-discovery. The contrast between structure and movement, light and shadow, order and chaos reflects the inner dialogue that shapes every individual. Rather than presenting a finished identity, the painting captures a moment within an ongoing process — the continuous assembly of the self. The work invites the viewer to reflect on their own journey of becoming and the countless visible and invisible elements that create who they are.
Why collect this work?
Black linear scaffolds cut across fluid fields and scattered facial fragments, making identity appear constructed yet resistant to completion.
- Arutyunyan describes her intuitive practice as an exploration of transformation and emotional states. Here, that intention is legible in the tension between firm divisions and forms that remain open or partially dissolved.
- In the photograph, eyes, spirals and beak-like profiles recur without resolving into a single figure. A dark central mass joins several directional lines, acting less as a body than as a temporary junction within the square composition.
- Catalogued as oil on canvas, the work uses broad fields, opaque dark marks and passages where underlying colour remains visible. Oil makes such contrasts between coverage and translucency possible, though the photograph cannot confirm surface texture or exact colour.
- This painting is a useful encounter with contemporary abstraction that retains bodily clues. Its unresolved assembly allows viewers to test where recognition begins: in an eye, an outline, or the connections imposed between fragments.
About the Artist
Diana Arutyunyan
Diana Arutyunyan is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Dubai, AE.
Nationality: Armenian
Artist Statement My work explores the connection between inner emotional states and visual form.
