Thénie Khatchatourian is a Swiss artist whose practice is rooted in drawing and works on paper. She develops a distinctive visual language composed of constructed, symbolic figures, where bodily, vessel-like, and geometric forms intersect.
Rendered in earthy pigments and restrained tones, her compositions evoke both human presence and architectural structure. Her work resists direct narration, instead distilling forms into essential visual elements that suggest memory, gesture, and continuity.
Drawing from her Armenian cultural heritage, Khatchatourian engages with memory as a process of transmission—where symbols, gestures, and forms persist across time. Her works reveal a shared visual language that connects past and present.
Her figures appear both intimate and monumental, quiet, grounded presences that carry a sense of collective memory.