Patil Tchilinguirian

La Maison d’Art is opening its doors in Old Montréal. More than just a place to live, it has long functioned as an open home for art, culture, and connection. Over the years, it has hosted intimate gatherings, immersive food experiences, musical performances, experimental raves, film nights, and yoga classes. What began as welcoming close friends for short stays gradually evolved into opening the space to guests drawn to its atmosphere and way of living. It is a home shaped by creative work, shared meals, and everyday life. If this resonates, send me a DM. I’ll share a short PDF with all the details.

In May, @elsyzavarce brought a pile of art materials to my studio along with some of her older work. The Pink Guy from her Guy Debord series, a few orphan plushy tentacles, and yellow ruffles she’d cut from a blouse she used to wear. “Do something with these.” Across the summer, I played with these materials. While I was developing my felted lichen work, I was thinking fungal: about networks, about resource sharing the way fungi do. The work emerged slowly, through the agency of the materials and an ongoing conversation with Elsy: scraps proposing, hands following, bodies taking shape together. Soft sculptures embracing softness as a form of resilience, resisting hierarchy and fixed identity. Becoming Fungal. At the end of July, I joined Elsy and her family for a weekend in Allentown, Pennsylvania. We moved into the little house downstairs at @lptdmcs , and the installation popped on our patio. My little felted lichens came along too, hanging in the garden. @alejandrinahz helped us settle everyone in. This is how Elsy and I work, under the name DeTerritorial. Two immigrant artists, one Venezuelan and one Lebanese Armenian, making collaborative art that transcends borders. It started during the pandemic with four hands on a piece of paper. Over time, we realized the four hands didn’t need to work simultaneously. We could keep building this participatory way of making across geographies. One of us makes something, the other takes what’s left, adds a layer, hands it back. Thank you to the Hernández family for the ride across the border, to Danny @ddjuro , and John for the warm welcome into their space, and a weekend full of love and so much togetherness. And to my own family for being part of it. Becoming Fungal (2025) Installation, 4 soft sculptures from repurposed fabrics, foam, and strips ✦ 01–06: Becoming Fungal on the patio, soft sculptures emerging from connection, play, and improvisation. ✦ 07: Hanging the soft sculptures with @alejandrinahz in the rain. ✦ 08: Elsy and Danny, the patio that held us. — #BecomingFungal #SoftSculpture #TextileArt #FiberArt

After moving to Montréal, I found myself on Indigenous land and all of a sudden felt an urgent need to understand my own Armenianness. What does it mean to be indigenous to a land you have never set foot on? To belong to a homeland absorbed, erased, never returned? At the time, I was trying to understand Armenianness through my diasporic lens. The lands my ancestors lived on for millennia, absorbed into Turkey after the Genocide in 1915. In the history books and literature we grew up with, they were painted as idyllic highlands. Mountains, valleys, rivers, animals. Landmarks I had only inherited, diasporically and in imagination.I was embroidering toward an image I had never seen, wondering how stitches could trace the entanglement of landscapes with borders. This landscape is built from photographs I took during my own travels through Armenian geographies, collaged into a spatial continuum. A transnational homeland held in thread, carrying emotional and spatial knowledge through the materiality of the work itself. Some of those images were taken in Artsakh. It was my first and last time there, in 2015. I remember standing on that soil and breathing in all the blood spilled on those lands to liberate it. Growing up in the diaspora in the 90s, we heard every now and then about our boys going to fight, to liberate. Artsakh was the wound and the victory at once. It was inconceivable to us that a land fought for so hard could be taken from us again. In 2023, Artsakh was lost. Ethnic cleansing. Total exodus. In 2026, the erasure continues. Azerbaijan openly and constantly declares their plans to occupy Yerevan. Anti-Armenian sentiment is normalized. And an Armenian government that collaborates with our oppressors betrays us daily. This work became an unintended archive. An embroidered record of places that no longer exist as Armenian. But we are still here, still bleeding. April 24. We remember. Armenian Spatial Imaginaries (2018) Digital embroidery on hand-dyed linen, naturally dyed with pomegranate rinds, 2m, produced on Tajima machine. Exhibited at Berlin Design Week (2018) and La Maison Molle, Livart, Montréal (2021).

I've been thinking like a lichen. Not metaphorically. Like...literally, slowing my sense of time, questioning what it means to belong somewhere, to move, to stay. Migrations Invisibles (2025) — felt on tulle, 20 × 20 cm, installation. Through felted, transparent, layered forms, the work holds in tension immobility and slow displacement, rootedness and transformation. It proposes a wider reading of migration, inscribed in deep time, where movement unfolds through silent relations rather than borders. The fiber gives tangible form to this coexistence of worlds, opening a space of attention and slowing down: an invitation to imagine other ways of inhabiting and sharing a common territory, shaped also by those who do not walk, do not fly, and do not swim. ✦ 01–02: @lptdmcs El Patio De Mi Casa in Pennsylvania. Hosted by @ddjuro , invited by @elsyzavarce . A garden that knew how to hold slow things. ✦ 03–05: The lichens hanging, finding their place among the green. ✦ 06–08: Montreal studio @maisonfrancemontreal , @aussenwelt.co . The work still becoming itself. Fiber by fiber, form finding form. ✦ 09–10: Then to France: Landscapes on the Move: Shifting Perspectives on Migrating Plants, Maison de la Création et de l'Innovation, curated by Marie Mianowski and Eugenia Reznik, who brought these pieces into conversation with botanical migration in Grenoble. ✦ 11: Here, @reznik_eugenia is speaking about the work to the opening audience. To hear someone else carry your intentions into the room. That's its own kind of migration. — #TextileArt #FiberArt #ContemporaryArt #FeltingArt #EcologicalArt #SlowArt #ArtAndNature #DiasporaArt #TextileArtist #InstallationArt #LichenArt #MigrationArt #SymbioticArt #FeltOnTulle #SlowTextile #ArtResidency #FungalThinking #FiberAndForm #ArtAndEcology #TransparentTextile #LandscapesOnTheMove #MigrationsInvisibles #Patchil

Hajje Marina, Still the coolest person in the room. Italian by origin, Lebanese by soul. Two Mediterranean worlds, held together in thread. She’s every hajje I’ve loved, and the ones I carry without knowing. For the women who endure everything and still choose life. Created for @liviacaruso February 2026 #tuftingart #fiberartist #textileart #arabart #lebanese diaspora

Traces from an art residency in Yerevan, Armenia, between memory, conversations, and present-day life in a region with ongoing tensions (March 2026). With the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. @canada.council

Not a natural disaster. Not a tragedy without authors. Exile and forced displacement that never conclude. War turned into background noise for those far away, into daily survival for those who cannot leave. Beirut…not as electric as it once was, but still alive, still loved, still breaking hearts. Held together by those who refuse to leave, and carried by those who were forced to. PTSD without an end date. Memory as the last territory that cannot be bombed. Grief, rage, love, helplessness, gratitude, all living in the same body at once. Thinking of everyone living through the unbearable right now. If you are able, please consider supporting organizations providing direct aid on the ground.

Félicitations à Sona Pogossian & Patil Tchilingurian (@pogossiansona , @patchill ), Martin Lukas Ostachowski (@mlodotart ), Roberto Santaguida, et Kayla Jeanson (@kayla.jeanson ) pour avoir reçu une Bourse d’accompagnement technologique ! Cette bourse comprend notamment une licence Isadora 4, des crédits IzzyCast, et un accompagnement personnalisé pour explorer la téléperformance et les technologies créatives. Offerte par Eastern Bloc (@easternblocmtl ) et Scènes Interactives Technologiques (@sit.scenesinteractives ), ce programme est rendu possible grâce au soutien de TroikaTronix (@troikatronix_isadora ) et du Conseil des arts du Canada (@canada.council ). - Congratulations to Sona Pogossian & Patil Tchilingurian (@pogossiansona & @patchill ), Martin Lukas Ostachowski (@mlodotart ), Roberto Santaguida and Kayla Jeanson (@kayla.jeanson ) on receiving a Technological Support Grant! This grant includes an Isadora 4 license, IzzyCast credits, and personalized support, among other resources, to explore teleperformance and creative technology. Offered by Eastern Bloc (@easternblocmtl ) and Scènes Interactives Technologiques (@sit.scenesinteractives ), this program is made possible through the support of TroikaTronix (@troikatronix_isadora ) and the Canada Council for the Arts (@canada.council ).

Open Studio Moments at Union Française I’m so grateful to have been invited by artist and friend Patil to present my Fleuras jewelry prototypes as part of her open studio residency at Union Française. This space—full of light, care, and creative energy—is becoming a true cultural incubator, where we’re imagining future collaborations as artists and designers. Together, we’re dreaming up collective projects through the Des-Territorial Collective and planning art + community workshops we call the Art Terrace. Thank you to everyone who stopped by, asked questions, and shared this day with us. #tbt #Fleuras #ArtJewelry #CulturalIncubator #OpenStudio #UnionFrançaiseMTL #ArtistResidency #DesTerritorialCollective #SocialArt #CreativeCollaboration #ElsyZavarce #Patil @patchill @curara_atelier @unionfrancaisedemontreal @aussenwelt.co video thanks @stefaniahz

🍊 New Custom Tufted Commission: “Orange Blossoms from Jaffa” 🍊 A one-of-a-kind birthday commission that brings cultural memory to life through bold color, rich texture, and graphic form. “Orange Blossoms from Jaffa” explores themes of displacement and remembrance, reflecting on how the image of a hometown shifts after forced departure. Jaffa is evoked through its iconic oranges, the Mediterranean Sea, and keffiyeh-inspired patterns. The oval format recalls embroidered keepsakes, blending dopamine aesthetics with intimate familiarity in a vibrant celebration of rhythm, identity, and visual storytelling. Medium: Acrylic yarn on monk’s cloth (tufting) Patchil crafts tactile, custom tufted artworks that transform personal narratives into contemporary textile expressions. Each piece invites connection, emotion, and reflection. → DM to begin your custom commission. #TuftingArt #CustomTextileArt #PatchilStudio #ContemporaryTufting #TuftedArtwork #MiddleEasternArt #DiasporicArt #OrangeBlossoms #JaffaArt #TextileNarratives #ModernCraft #OneOfAKindArt #TuftedDesign #MadeToOrderArt #MonksCloth #BirthdayGiftArt #HandmadeWithLove

La Pura Vida en Costa Rica! ✨ Spent January soaking in the colors, textures, and energy of this beautiful place. #artistonthemove #CreativeJourney #LaPuraVida #free

Dreams Are My Reality I’ve been pondering what it truly means to be a dreamer. To dream of what doesn’t yet exist or to dream of what always was both are acts of resistance and creation. This year, I’ve been confronted with the profound importance of dreaming and its many meanings. To dream is to dare. It is to imagine peace where there is conflict, love where there is division, and prosperity and abundance where scarcity rules. Dreaming means envisioning alternative futures, believing in paths yet untraveled, and holding fast to a hope that feels just beyond reach. As Arundhati Roy so poignantly put it, “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” Dreaming isn’t mere escapism. In the face of adversity, dreaming becomes an act of courage, a commitment to a kinder, more just, and more vibrant world. Without dreamers, the world stagnates, its edges dulled by routines and unchallenged norms. Though we may be few and they many, it is clear that they need us dreamers far more than we need them. This year, I’ve embraced dreams that once seemed impossible: to dream of feeling happy and to imagine abundance not as a solitary pursuit but as a shared state of being. Most importantly, I’ve come to value dreaming together, because the dreams we build in communion are the ones that truly change the world. This belief inspired my collaboration with the talented duo @alma.mediaart during the pandemic. In the Spring of 2021, amidst confinement, we created a two-hour live-streamed audiovisual performance for World Drone Day, celebrated through the immersive Drooooone Festival. Accompanying @alma.mediaart 's sonic drones with my visuals, I embarked on an aerial voyage, a moment that taught me that dreams, much like art, have the power to transform and connect. Dreams are my reality and maybe, just maybe, they can be yours too. #DreamsAreMyReality #DreamBig #WorldBuilding #AudiovisualArt #DroneDay #DroneFestival #DigitalArt #PandemicCreation #ArtInConfinement #SonicDrones #LiveVisuals #VJing #VisualAlchemy #Resolume #ResolumeArena