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"Masculinity: breaking stereotypes"
online exhibition

presented art works with short description
Aleksandra Ivanova, Belarus
The figure of a man is drawn with a ruler and a pencil and if you want to be called a man you have to fit into these projected frames: diversity is not accepted.
Irina Tkeshelashvili, Georgia
The appearance of a man which is considered strange for Armenian society and wants to show that it is not obliged for everyone to have similar appearances to fit into the frames of “normal”.
Irina Tkeshelashvili, Georgia
The idea is that we think that a man usually carries the burden of a family and cares for everything, holds it with his teeth but in reality very often we can see the opposite of it.
Varvara Musayelova, Armenia
"Teapot"
winner
Man is viewed as a utility being and the author compares the boiling teapot with the condition of a man occured because of his sexual desires.
Vahan Sosoyan, Armenia
"Overdose depressed"
The man is in the wheelchair but it doesn’t mean that he loses his masculinity and can’t perform the roles that he was doing before. The physical capacities are not the precondition of masculinity.
Vahan Sosoyan, Armenia
"Escape"
A capture of a masculine man who doesn’t afraid to show his fears, emotions though it is assumed that men always have to be strong.
Aren Shahnazaryan, Armenia
"Death by love"
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Aram Jibilian, USA
"Auto examinations"
A series of photographic work, titled "Auto examinations" that focuses on notions of masculinity and the act of examination.
With so many strict rules on who can and cannot touch whom and when and how, the author finds the licensed physician to have an intriguing power: to manipulate and treat the entire human body, down to the microscopic elements.  The usual dynamics of power that define human relationships go through a visual break down in this space; gestures of examination become confused with gestures of affection become confused with gestures of subjection.  And when these doctors become patients, the assumed expertise and power over the body, this fragile masculinity, seems to vanish as they too become passive objects of the doctor’s actions.
Vahan Sosoyan, Armenia
"Passion"
The harmony between man and women where there is no leadership and no one is a dominant.
Vahagn Azaryan, USA
It is more important to value what men and women have in common instead of emphasizing differences.
Karen Mirzoyan, Armenia
Perception on gender roles: father takes care of the baby.
Maria Ayvazyan, Armenia
Father takes care of the child, not only mothers should take care of their kids education and development.
Varduhi Mkhitaryan, Armenia
"You ate it…and so?"
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“Will I be a real man if my future wife is not a virgin?” This is the most frequent expression that you can hear from Armenian men. In this picture author wants to show the absurdness of the tradition of a “Red Apple” and foolishness of connecting the notion of masculinity with the girl’s virginity.
Irina Tkeshelashvili, Georgia
Very often we can hear: “His wife would never betray him if he was a real man?” Here the core idea is that we mustn’t construct our perceptions about others masculinity depending on the behavior of his partner.
Lilit Arshakyan, Armenia
"Alfred Hitchcock"
The great film director Alfred Hitchcock is an example of a man who had different complexes and never hide them, but at the same time his figure was always considered as an example of masculinity.
Vardan Yepremyan, Armenia
"Freedom"
winner
The man is free from his complexes, stereotypes, prejudies and is in a free flight of freedom.
   
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Eva Gyulaiova, Slovakia
"Freedom pray"
 
Public Information and Need of Knowledge NGO (Lilit Arshakyan and Mamikon Hovsepyan)
"Man... what is that?"
 
organizer: "Public Information and Need of Knowledge" NGO

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