Sorry for Interrupting (2024–2025)

What does it mean to inhabit a space that was never meant to hold you?

What kinds of images emerge when fragments insist on being whole?

Sorry for Interrupting constructs a painted ecology of rupture, where clouds breach gardens and incompatible plants are forced to share ground. Across two rooms, large-scale scenes interrupt one another, while smaller works cluster or stand in solitary tension. This fictional ecology defies botanical logic, staging improbable forms of coexistence shaped by displacement and adaptation.

The show explores interruption as a method of seeing. Rooted in tensions between natural order and invented logic, the work asks: can ecological fictions reveal emotional truths? Can a painting hold multiple incompatible realities at once?

Drawing on poetics of memory, botanical dislocation, and architectural rhythm, Vartabedian builds a visual system that undoes itself. Inspired by thinkers like Gaston Bachelard and Anna Tsing, the exhibition invites the viewer to pause, move, and look again.