The Economist collage/drawings are a series of collaborative work that represent an ongoing dialogue between artists, Mira Burack and Narine Kchikian. The works are extrapolations of weeks in time, all content derived from their verbal and material discussions of the world’s narratives in the issues of The Economist magazine. Sorting through The Economist’s visual language, Burack and Kchikian cultivate their own personal economy, internalizing the issues and information while questioning the influence of the media on the development of our minds.
Burack and Kchikian approach the global, political and economic content with a sensitive layering of the material – methods of extracting, cutting, drawing, connecting and arranging are infused into woven, illusionary spaces that carry delicate objects, enveloping fields of color, disappearing lines, and architectural patterns and structures. The spaces created within these drawing/collages are like maps, intersecting imaginative, internal locations of the mind with real, recognizable global iconography from the pressing political issues of this time.
