Veronika Babayan

Veronika Babayan (b. 1994) is an artist and educator based in Rotterdam. Her practice is rooted in feminist discourse on matriotism and employs an auto-ethnographic approach to examine how intergenerational trauma and collective memory are preserved and transmitted within diasporic communities. Babayan’s interdisciplinary work unfolds through collective processes and often takes the form of multimedia installations.

A significant aspect of her practice centres on fruit-preservation techniques, particularly fruit leather-making. She is drawn to this material for its capacity to embody oral histories of displacement and migration—specifically those carried by Armenian women. The edible material functions as a collective political subjectivity: a mnemonic device and a vessel through which embodied knowledge and oral histories are transmitted across generations.