imagicus

Author: segkirakossian@gmail.com

  • Tradition

    Tradition

    Year: 2026

    Type: Documentary

    Countries of production: Armenia, Luxembourg

    Filming Country: Spain (Alicante)

    Runtime: 7m 36s

    Producer, Director: Seg Kirakossian

    Synopsis:

    Tradition is about a ritual in which enormous monuments are built over months only to be deliberately burned in a single night. The film confronts a paradox at the heart of human culture: our impulse to create beauty, assign importance to it, and then destroy it in the belief that the act serves a greater purpose.

    As crowds celebrate, dance around the flames, and scream “Agua” to be drenched by firefighters, the happenings become a public ritual of sacrifice. The monuments, admired and cherished only moments before, are offered to the fire as part of a tradition that promises purification – not of the objects themselves, but of those who created, celebrated, and ultimately surrendered them.

    Without narration or explanation, the film observes this act as a reflection of a wider human tendency. Throughout history, people have sacrificed lives, possessions, beliefs, and even entire civilizations in pursuit of purification, renewal, redemption or meaning. We believe that something valuable must be destroyed so that those who destroy it may emerge transformed. But is sacrifice a path to purification or a justification invented by those unwilling to bear the cost themselves?

    The film ends with a single statement: “We create beauty and importance… to sacrifice them.”

  • Mixed Media Art Installations by Seg Kirakossian

    This Memories Collection began when a group of materials – glass, wood, stones, candlelight, silver, and gold – refused to stay silent.
    They came from different parts of the world as Brazil, Australia, Europe and Asia, each carrying traces of their previous lives. Once gathered, cleaned and reassembled, they began to dictate their own relationships: how light should pass, where texture should interrupt, how color should settle.

    Under Seg Kirakossian’s careful attention, these materials started forming compositions that no single plan could have predicted. The artist’s task was not to impose but to listen. Each piece reached completion only when the materials themselves stopped resisting.

    The collection follows the logic of new materialism – the idea that matter holds intelligence, that form is not imposed but emerges. It also integrates the 3R approach (reuse, reduce, recycle) practiced without compromise in hygiene or refinement.

    Each work has a passport, a concise record of its components’ origins and transformations.

    The collection reveals itself differently depending on its environment.
    – In darkness, the forms are universes.
    – Under UV light, hidden emotional layers awaken.
    – In white light, all elements reach naive equilibrium.

    Born during Kirakossian’s doctoral research at the University of Luxembourg, this body of work continues his investigation into how material limitations shape aesthetic outcomes. Yet, the collection now lives beyond theory – it inhabits homes, offices, and public interiors.

    In private settings, the works become instruments for reflection.
    In professional environments, they act as conversation catalysts.
    Everywhere, they function as quiet presences – reminders that creation often begins when matter itself takes the lead.