Urvakan

Urvakan means ghost in Armenian. For the festival of that name, held at Yerevan’s old Children’s Railway, Galstyan hung a ceramic figure in the park pavilion: a many-headed ghost, a human-shaped hydra hovering over the festival like the many faces of the railway’s past.

A second work, made of numbered plates, came from his childhood memories of travelling by train: the rhythm of a life measured by repeated numbers, scales and timetables.