Lilit Sargsyan

Lilit Sargsyan

Lilit Sargsyan is an art critic, art historian and curator. She graduated from the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts in 1996. Lilit’s main professional interests include modern and contemporary Armenian art of the 20th-21st centuries. She is the author of an array of catalogs and albums dedicated to Armenian Soviet and contemporary artists and art projects, as well as articles and speeches in the media regarding various issues of Armenian art.

Global and Local Art Wars

The inclusion of two conflicting Armenian artists from different eras on a prestigious platform of global contemporary art reveals the need to fundamentally reconsider and rethink the Armenian artistic heritage of the recent past.