Anna Hovan was born and lives in Armenia. He started his career in fashion design and gradually transitioned to pure art. He has developed his own language of expression through self-study and has deepened it through academic ateliers and specialized programs.
In his works, he sees the female figure as a mirror of identity, expressing the struggle between appearance and inner self, the depth and complexity of existence that oscillates between what is visible and what cannot be spoken.
Artist Statement My paintings explore identity as a process of transformation. A person experiences his own existence between the external image and the inner essence, between the visible and the unspeakable. Modern society offers "ready-made templates" such as fashion, social norms, and beauty standards, but they often fail to reflect the depth of the human experience. I transcend visual conventions and turn the human body into a place to question who we are when we take off our masks.
For me, beauty is not an aesthetic criterion, but a living "energy of being". It is fragile, sometimes contradictory, but radiates inner harmony. I am strongly attracted to the moment when the external appearance is not just a form, but a reflection of the inner state - the moment when a person overlaps with his true self for a moment.
The people I draw are not portraits, but metaphors of human existence. Standing on the border between matter and metaphysics, body and spirit, it reveals its identity as a fluid, unstable, and lively "movement" through the interaction of color, space, and rhythm rather than a fixed result. Painting is a form of self-exploration and at the same time an invitation to an inner dialogue that invites the viewer to have an inner dialogue.
