Danielle Andrea Krikorian engages with the visualisation of trauma, memory and the body. Through cultural heritage and lived experience, her practice focuses on how the relationship between light, ink and colour can create an intimacy between the viewer and the image to convey an experience and/or a memory.
Krikorian studied at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and at University College London (UCL). She is currently an Art History PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham.
Krikorian’s PhD thesis (M4C/AHRC funded Doctoral Research) Patterns of Trauma: Lebanese Women Artists and the Aesthetics of Abstraction in times of War focuses on trauma theory, gender dynamics, postcolonial theory, and Islamic art in the works of Lebanese women artists during the Lebanese Civil War in the 1970s. Delving into themes of memory and identity, the research examines their work through the lens of testimony and remembrance and how they expressed visually expressed their lived-in experience of war.