In Can I Come Out Now? Arman is still checking whether he can come out. Here he has made up his mind and stepped outside. He is on the metro, in the middle of the city where he was born and which so often treated him as a stranger. Even so, he does not look entirely at ease. Happily, the same cannot be said of his dog.
The painter
Arman Galstyan (born 1994) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he studied with Mirosław Bałka and Paweł Susid. Warsaw-born and of Armenian roots, he paints domestic life and its small private rituals, and often returns in his own pictures as a watched, vulnerable figure. The ordinary scene, painted large, takes on the weight of something monumental.