Born in 1972, Annie Kurkdjian had to endure sixteen years of civil war in her native Beirut. His childhood was marked by the sound of bombs, terror, constant insecurity and the inconsistency of ordinary things. As an Armenian, she has already withstood the trauma of the Armenian genocide through her grandmother's story. At the age of twelve, as her family was preparing to flee Lebanon for France, she lost her father in a fierce murder in a hold-up. The next day, she discovered photos of her lifeless body, riddled with bullets, in the newspaper. As a young teenager, she suffered from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and realized that she had to find a way out from the distress imprinted on her body. After a period of trying to find his niche, going through studies in management, art, then psychology and finally theology. Annie decides to turn the page in 2005 and begins a new life as an artist, with regular exhibitions in France, Lebanon, Bahrain, Jordan and other countries.

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His paintings are sober and at the same time powerful, representing beings in tortured, monstrous and grotesque postures. Sometimes they fixate on the viewer, with a numb eye and hunched shoulders, as harassed or lost. Their bodies seem dissected, analyzed, they form trembling and poignant images. These large canvases breathing tragedy ask us about life itself.

According to Annie Kurkdjian, the answers lie in the sincerity of the artistic process.

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Art is capable of sublimating everything, war, crime, shame, disease and total hell.

Annie kurkdjian