I am an actor. In my practice, I combine performative art, storytelling techniques, and visual thinking. The merging of these elements creates a space where I can freely explore my sensations and emotional states.

Through visual storytelling, I release my spiritual-sensory field from events and influences that occur beyond my control. Digital drawing allows me, in a dark space on a luminous screen, to leave traces of the feelings that disturb me through the movement of my hand, and to give form to my inner sensory world.

The texts I create are impulsive codifications of my sensations.

Shadow theatre is a performative space where story, image, and sound remain in shadow. The shadow is intangible, immaterial, non-corporeal — a safe space.

Why shadow theatre?
I am an actor by profession, and shadows are images. I have been drawing since childhood. It was a safe space for me, where I could express my joys, anxieties, and curiosities.

Today, wandering through different branches of art, I am searching for myself and my true sensations. I am discovering my spiritual-sensory world, shaped by external factors and influences.

By circumstance, I am Armen Balabanyan.
By circumstance, in this body.
By circumstance, in this space.

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