Apricot

In this series, Artur Martirosyan turns to the apricot as a starting point for creating a new mythology. The fruit, deprived of its natural context, becomes material for constructing a myth — an object that imitates the sacred but belongs to none of the existing systems. This is an attempt to create a new myth through plastic form. The apricots are always placed in a state of weightlessness — floating in the air, without touching any surface. This compositional decision emphasizes their detachment from reality: the fruit no longer belongs to either the tree or the earth; it exists as an autonomous object, like an idol deprived of any utilitarian function. At the same time, he deliberately introduces dynamics into each work: the apricots are turned at different angles, some are shown in cross-section, with the pit exposed, others — at the moment when their surface begins to crack. This creates an effect of movement, of a stopped instant, when the object is fixed not in statics, but in a transitional state — between the material and the metaphysical.

In these works, the apricot ceases to be a fruit. It is an artifact of a new mythology, an object that simulates the sacred but remains empty inside. The form carries the memory of the fruit, yet exists in another dimension — as a sign signifying only itself, like a myth created anew.