Ara Oshagan

'Diasporic identity'

“Beirut Memory Project #49” (digital collage, archival pigment print on velvet fine art paper), in the show “Disrupted, Borders,’’ by Ara Oshagan, at Armenian Museum of America, Watertown, Mass., through Dec. 30.

— Courtesy of the artist.

The museum says:

Drawing on his own history and identity, photographer and installation artist Ara Oshagan brings together several series of work that focus on his interest in “diasporic identity, afterlives of displacement and colonization, erasure and (un)imagined futures’’.

City seal of Watertown.

Borders, seen and unseen

“The Beirut Memory Project #56, 2018-2021,’’ in the show “Disrupted, Borders,’’ by Ara Oshagan (digital collage, archival pigment print on velvet fine art paper), at the Armenian Museum of America, Watertown, Mass.

— Photo courtesy of the Armenian Museum of America

The museum says:

Oshagan is a "diasporic multi-disciplinary artist, curator, and cultural worker whose practice explores collective and personal histories of dispossession, legacies of violence, identity, and (un)imagined futures." The show "weaves together different geographies and spaces that considers the impact of borders (both visible and invisible) on our personal and collective history, past-present-future, and the disruption of dislocation."