Armenie ville * Armenie ville is a photo installation and artist's book project conceived originally during my artist's residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2007, Year of Armenia in France. The images presented here are pages of the book itself. They are a selection from a series that depicts over than 50 Armenian churches in more than 20 countries in a continuous territorial flow that from Western Europe reaches Armenia in the Caucasus. Collected over a period of four years, the photos are taken from different sources: personal shootings, archives (in Italy, France, Germany, Georgia and Armenia), historical and contemporary authors, research on the web. They highlight the peculiarities of Armenian architecture and the essential nature of its forms which have remained unchanged for over 1500 years. Armenie Ville deals with time, memory, migration and heritage of people as well as forms, aiming also to raise questions within photography and its authorship in itself. As a sort of Warburg’s Atlas of memory each form is reproduced in a different place and in a different time, whereas monument and photography follow here the same path, as they lack a fixed gaze and a definite age. * Due to its own nature Armenie ville is a project who’s destiny is to remain partially unrealised. The impossibility to document all the under construction and unbuilt Armenian churches (who’s non-fulfilment find different reasons, as social, political, or economical) is represented here by the render of the unrealized, Armenian Church in Kiev.