Gohar Sargsyan places great importance on the areas that fulfill the purpose of her project.
It was intended to be a project exhibited in a public space where its characters, "the strangers," and the audience could meet. And in order
to truly become "A Stranger in the Room," the area had to be able to accommodate each of the installation's components.
The objective was for both the area and the exhibition to enable a dialogue and draw the audience into its realm.
To gather everything that was scattered, everything that alienated closeness, to reveal what was hidden behind the mask or resulted from being in closed quarters.
Gohar Sargsyan's project involves more than just the pandemic. It is not only the elements of nature that induce us to hide and alienate ourselves.
Other oppressive political, social, and cultural forces also emerge.
Truth is openness, wrote Martin Heidegger, and art illuminates human existence which would otherwise be buried in darkness.
And indeed, that is the focus of this project.
Vardan Jaloyan