Ara Oshagan will present photographs from his recently published photographic book "displaced" — a work about diasporic memory, multi-generational displacement and the ambiguities of narrative.

Oshagan, whose grandparents survived the Armenian Catastrophe of 1915 and whose parents were themselves born in diaspora, was born and grew up in the Armenian diasporic community of Beirut. He was himself displaced as a child during the Civil War and came of age in the United States.

Oshagan is a diasporic trans-disciplinary artist and curator whose practice explores collective and personal histories of displacement, legacies of violence, identity and (un)imagined futures. Oshagan works in photography, collage, installation, film, archives, book arts, public art and monuments and has published four books of photography.

Date: Friday, Feb. 13
Time: 7 - 9 p.m.
Location: Grosse Industrial Technology Building

For more information, contact professor Barlow Der Mugrdechian at barlowd@csufresno.edu.