Sonia Balassanian
Sonia Balassanian was born in Iran in 1942 and has lived in New York since the early seventies. She is a painter, sculptor, and curator. She is the co-founder of the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art.
It is late evening in London, and I am attempting to speak to Sonia in New York. She is aged eighty at this point. Her son, Arné, downloads WhatsApp onto her mobile phone and within the space of minutes, I have three missed calls from her. I dial back hurriedly; she is a little out of breath.
