kar (Քար, meaning “stone”) is an exhibition and film work by Alex Sarkisian that traces the delicate survival of Western Armenian ancestral places. Moving across the Armenian Highlands through monasteries, cities and landscapes now within the coercive border of Turkey and left to ruin, the film gathers the slow violence of erasure: storms, earthquakes, military occupation, theft, and neglect. These sites, once vital to Armenian cultural and spiritual life, are today marked by deliberate abandonment and destruction by the Turkish state.

The film follows the filmmaker and their father on a return to Kharpert, their ancestral home, visited for the first time since the Armenian Genocide. This intergenerational journey carries the weight of loss and the persistence of memory, holding together the impossibility of preservation with the urgency of witnessing.

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kar runs from 23 November 2025 to 1 March 2026.