Light Born in Shadow
THE SUN
COLLECTION
In the beginning — there was light.
Not just visibility, but distinction.
A boundary between chaos and form,
a threshold where shadow is born.
Shadow is not absence. It is the imprint of light.
A sign that something exists.
I search for those edges where reality is only beginning to emerge,
where light and silence first touch the surface of the canvas.
I am drawn to how absence can speak of presence.
How light reveals itself not directly, but through shadow.
How silence can be a statement, and visual art — a philosophical
experience.
The form is deliberately restrained.
Straight lines define the structure, the boundary.
Everything else belongs to shadow — it wavers, flows, slips away.
Form offers support, while shadow becomes
a space for perception.
My works are an observation of becoming.
Not of the object, but of its emergence.
Not of light itself, but of the trace it leaves behind.
I depict pauses of presence.
Not scenes, but states.
Within them, shadow becomes a place of encounter:
with emptiness, with the self.
I don’t seek to fill the canvas.
I create a space of waiting —
where light doesn’t shine, but sleeps in depth,
and darkness doesn’t threaten, but gently holds balance.
My art is an invitation.
My art is an invitation.
Not to see, but to notice.
Not to understand, but to be present.
Not to explain, but to absorb.
Not to assign meaning — but to wait until it reveals itself.
Not to fill space, but to allow it to be.
Tigran Manukyan is an artist and architect based in Düsseldorf,
working in painting and fine art photography. The visual language of his work centers on spatial silence, structural clarity, and the perception of thresholds.
He was born in 1992 in Gyumri, Armenia, into a family of artists. From an early age, he drew in his father’s studio. He later received four years of intensive training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gyumri, studying under various professors, including his father. These formative years shaped his visual discipline and sensitivity to composition.
He went on to study architecture at the Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction, where the logic of structure merged with the poetics of space and became the foundation of his artistic practice.
Selected Projects and Exhibitions
- 1998 – First International Biennale, Gyumri, Armenia
- 2000 – Painting Exhibition, Branch of the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts, Gyumri
- 2001 – Solo Exhibition of Graphic Works, Café Artbridge, Yerevan
- 2011 – Group Exhibition LIKE THAT POLYVINYL ACETATE, Kalents Museum, Yerevan
- 2012 – Graduation Architectural Project: Innovation Center, Gyumri
- 2025 – Internazionale d’Arte della Riviera Romana, Biennale, Italy
