Emilie Nakachian

Born and raised in France, I am a visual and scenic artist living and working in Toronto since 2015.
From the early beginning of my artist's journey, I've been working around the concept and mechanism of memory. From questioning my own memory, with the influence of our dreams, then the development of habits, to the role of our emotions; I try to understand, how progressively we write our own personal history.
In the same way, I was intrigued by the representation of our world in two dimensions. How we are surrounded by maps and how they help us understanding our world. How they can display so much information in a quite simple way. How they constitute a reference of what sometimes we can’t see by ourselves and act like mirrors. And how, without it, we wouldn’t be able to picture ourselves in this world.

This is how I came to develop three main Art Series:
- LEGENDS: a conceptual work utilizing symbolic representation to portray someone's feelings in relation to a place, or a situation at a given moment of their life..
- PERSISTENCE OF LIFE: a conceptual work based on the representation of images that are printed in our memory like photographic slides, with simple lines and colours.
- RECOLLECTIONS: a concept based on a more illustrative work, inspired by the Dutch Golden Age, and consisting in depicting an everyday life moment through the scope of memories and what is left of it.