- 2023 Laureate Mathilde E. Horlait-Dapsens Foundation prize, School of Arts KASK & Conservatory, Ghent, Belgium



- Import - Export, Friperie: Selected Bales
   Invited by Mekhitar Garabedian
   Sam De Buysere, Miles Fischler, Axel Korban, Thor Salden, Stine Sampers, Joud Toamah
                                     DUO BOOK PRESENTATION &                EXHIBITION at BOEKS, Ghent
                                            04.05.2023, 19.00-22.00,                                       05.05—26.05.2023


Garabedian's book is a photographic response to his eponymous one-year public sculpture, commissioned
by Kunst in de Stad/Middelheimmuseum, for the Antwerp Stadspark Public Figure plinth series in 2022—23.
With Import - Export, Friperie, Garabedian traces the aesthetic, linguistic, and affective economies borne of a
personal story of displacement and belonging. In keeping with the project's dialogic nature, he has invited for
the BOEKS exhibition six artists to engage with the sculpture: Sam De Buysere, Miles Fischler, Axel Korban,
Thor Salden, Stine Sampers and Joud Toamah.


For the occasion of the exhibition, their contributions come together in the publication Import - Export, Friperie: Selected Bales.