Sarine Koundakdjian

Sarine Koundakdjian is a Lebanese-Armenian conceptual and visual artist working across installations, sculptures, painting, digital art, photography, and mixed media. With a background in fine arts and graphic design, she approaches materials as carriers of meaning, transforming lived experience into abstract forms and emotional structures.
A graduate of the Lebanese University, Faculty of Fine Arts & Architecture (2024), she holds a Master's in Fine Arts. Her practice is shaped by resilience, emotional endurance, and the human experience, often reflecting both personal and collective struggles. Through her work, she investigates memory, survival, and the quiet strength it takes to endure. At the core of her practice is the belief that every piece should carry meaning, offering a sense of hope and serving as a source of light.
Her installations explore invisible pain, emotional pressure, and the strength of the human spirit. Using fragility, tension, texture, and material presence, she makes the unseen visible turning vulnerability into visual language, pain into expression, and expression into power.
Her work stands as a reflection on survival, inner transformation, and the force that allows individuals to rise and rebuild and has been exhibited across Lebanon, including at the Elysée Theater, Casino du Liban, and Byblos, as well as in collective exhibitions such as Shared Ground and Women Empowerment in collaboration with Expertise France.

My practice is grounded in the experience of pain, emotional pressure, and the invisible traces of trauma that shape human perception and memory. For me, resilience is not a starting point, but something that emerges through healing and transformation.
I work with themes of stress, destruction, silence, and survival, translating these conditions into abstract visual and material forms. Rather than representing experiences directly, I rely on abstraction, allowing form, texture, tension, and material presence to carry emotional weight and meaning. Through this process, invisible states are given a physical language that can be sensed rather than explained.
My process begins with emotional or conceptual triggers rooted in lived experience. I explore materials that resonate with these internal conditions, allowing their physical properties to guide the development of the work. The interaction between intention and material is essential, where transformation occurs through experimentation and responsiveness.
Each work is a space of encounter, where viewers are invited to engage on a personal level. The aim is not only to express experience, but to create moments where others can recognize, relate, and reflect on their own emotions. Through this connection, pain is transformed into a source of strength and quiet hope, opening a space where vulnerability becomes visible and shared human experiences can offer understanding, relief, and light.