Anna Boghiguian

In conjunction with Milano Art Week 2025, the Fondazione Henraux, in collaboration with GAM–Galleria d’Arte Moderna, presents The four faces of A man, an exhibition by the Egyptian-Canadian artist of Armenian origin, Anna Boghiguian (1946, Cairo). The exhibition project, curated by Edoardo Bonaspetti, enacts within the rooms of the museum a dialogue between the works of the permanent collection and the artist’s recent output, including a series of new sculptures made of marble, a material Boghiguian has engaged with for the first time, having won the Henraux Sculpture Commission prize at miart 2024. Boghiguian’s practice takes in numerous artistic languages, from drawing and painting to writing and installation, in order to address themes bound up with history, politics, colonialism, and the human condition, with a multilayered style that interweaves narrative and social critique. Her works are expressive pathways that are forever open to new readings and reworkings, on the basis of a vision of existence and time as continual metamorphosis. The gallery’s late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century works thus enter into a dialogue with the artist’s contemporary works, which are in turn reinterpreted in terms of their subjects, materials, and forms. Underpinning it all is a profound sense of freedom and empathy towards the human being, as well as the idea of life as an endless journey, undergoing constant transformation and awash with challenges. After all, art, as Boghiguian has declared, is a source of energy, a process of healing for the soul, and a force with which to provide succor in the face of the pain and suffering of the world.