Depi — A Video-Performance by Sarah Trouche
Դեպի (Depi) means “toward,” “in the direction of.”
The project considers movement less as a journey than as a protocol for transformation: a way of exploring how bodies, materials, and territories mutually alter one another.
Across different Armenian landscapes — urban, rural, mountainous, industrial, and abandoned — performers move with circular structures made from reclaimed inner tubes and felted wool. These mobile sculptures become extensions of the body, taking the form of obstacles, shelters, markers, and fragments of a temporary cartography.
The two materials carry different histories. The inner tube evokes movement, circulation, wear, and traces of previous journeys, while felted wool connects the work to the pastoral and material history of the territory. The process of making felt — bringing fibers together through water, pressure, and friction — becomes a way of thinking about migration, diaspora, and belonging.
The movement begins with two performers and gradually expands as other participants join them, forming a collective body. Each encounter transforms the movements, the sculptures, and their relationship with the surrounding environment.
“Depi” brings together performance, sculpture, and film to create an unstable cartography of Armenia, constructed not through borders, but through experience.
This project is presented as part of Sarah Trouche’s residency at NPAK.
28.10.26, at 19։00
NPAK, 2026