Noah’s Tombs (2025)

Commissioned by aichi TRIENNIAL

Created for Aichi Triennale 2025, Noah’s Tombs forges a connection between Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, where the burial sites of Noah—an important patriarchal figure in multiple global religions, including Islam, Christianity, and Judaism—are believed to reside. This large-scale installation unites these burial sites, harmonizing their conflicts.

The circular structure appears to carve the tombs out of the earth as it rotates around the gallery’s central pillar.  The draped fabrics further dramatizes the installation, offering a space of remembrance articulated through rubbings that inscribe the surfaces of the tombs.The fabrics overlap visually, blending the materials and rubbings into an Ouroboros—a serpent swallowing its own tail, an ancient symbol of continuity and eternal return. The color of each fabric connotes particular cultural and spiritual meanings—those dyed green enter into dialogue with Noah’s grave sites and symbolize paradise, purity, and prosperity— forming a space that emerges between myth and reality, past and future.

Spatial design by MüllerAprahamian