Step into Karina Yacoubian’s world, where light, shadow, and texture create an emotional landscape beyond the visible spectrum.
Karina Yacoubian’s work doesn’t subject you to a visual experience – it’s an immersive, meditative exploration of her inner world. Throughout her life, she grew a deep craving and need for a creative process. Karina developed works steeped in an intimate relationship with her imagination and herself. Yacoubian is known for her use of color and movement, but in her latest “Pure White” series she subjects the world to her bold, minimalist take, where the lack of color reveals more possibilities. Space, planets, and natural themes are explored in this series. She invites the viewer to enter an abstract universe where light, volume, and shadow are loud participants over pigment.
Creating art is almost like a ritual that helps me to abstract my thoughts in a process of losing myself between the canvas and the materials. I want my art to reveal an inner universe of emotions and sensations – like an eternal dream.
Karina Yacoubian
What is your newest series?
“Pure White” series.
What was or is the inspiration or concept behind this new series or exhibition?
The use of volume and the absence of pigments is the most expressive means in this series of canvases. Where the shadows change according to the intensity and arrangement of the light source. The theme of the series is space, planets, that which is beyond our knowledge, mixed with nature.
What’s the message behind your new series or exhibition?
With the absence of colors and the predominance of volume, I seek to lead to reflection by immersing the observer in abstract and minimalist art. I want to break away from the concept of what we know as “real,” making way for the imagination that is unique and non-transferable. I seek to create an atmosphere where emotions and instincts will once again be unique and individual. Individuality will be the only protagonist of the interpretation, where common sense and rules give way to intuition and emotions. Freedom has no limits.
What’s your personal highlight of the series or latest exhibition?
The simplicity, the organic, the handling of the technique, the expressiveness of the series itself.
Moreover, is there a particular piece in the series that you’re most fond of? Why?
“Moon” is a very expressive canvas. Source of light, companion of space, and ever-changing. Essential, multifaceted, intriguing, and enigmatic, it has fascinated humanity since we looked at the skies, influencing the seas, the land, and living beings.
If you encountered any challenges during the creation of this series or holding your latest exhibition, how did you manage to tackle and overcome them?
The great challenge was and is to limit myself to not using colors; on the contrary, the expressive medium is the use of plaster, paper, putty, and the different shades of white that create the specific theme of each canvas.
How would you recommend a visitor to experience your creation?
The experience should be as free as possible, not limiting the imagination, being able to appreciate the canvas from different points of view, paying special attention to the light source since this will provide the different shadows that are also an important part of the composition of the canvas.
What kind of engagement or interaction do you hope to have with your audience? (Or what did you have?)
Let them experiment and see new forms on the canvas, those that I do not see, nor did I see, nor did I have in mind at the time of creating the composition of the canvas. If new interpretations and feelings arise, it means that individuality is the protagonist beyond the subject of the canvas.
What’s next for you? Are you already working on a new series or project?
I’m still working on the “Pure White” series.
Singulart Insight
“Pure White” is an invitation to explore art without limits. It is Karina Yacoubian’s particular way of offering to the traveler who seeks to transcend all limits, as form, light, and shadow act as vehicles of individual thought. She encourages the viewer to remove color and allows them to discover an individual meaning in each piece based on their creative imagination. For us at Singulart, Yacoubian’s work is a beautiful exemplar of the transformative powers of simplicity. The nuance of texture, the suppleness of light, the poetry of a shared sensation. They all bypass language and speak to the senses directly to create a personalized experience with every encounter of her work. We are excited to see what else Karina has in the works for us!
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