Replaced is an intimate exploration of heartbreak, longing, and the struggle to let go of a love that lingers in memory. Blurring the boundaries between documentary and fiction, the artist turns her lens inward, revisiting a relationship whose ending remains difficult to reconcile with its lived reality. Through acts of re-staging and re-enactment, she attempts to reclaim a story that once unfolded beyond her control, reconstructing moments of intimacy in an effort to hold on to what has been lost. Suspended between absence and presence, the work explores heartbreak as both an ending and an ongoing process of remembering, where the desire to move forward is continually interrupted by the longing to return.
Allemandi & Atelier EXB, 2026

In Father, Markosian embarks on a decade-long exploration of estrangement and reconciliation, journeying to another place and another time to piece together the image of a familiar stranger: her father. Separated from him for nearly two decades, she revisits the past through photography, archival materials, film, and personal writing, tracing the fragile process of rebuilding a relationship shaped by absence and lost time. Moving between memory, intimacy and estrangement, the work becomes an intimate search for connection with a man she barely remembers. When he asks her, “Why did it take you so long?”, the question resonates as both a reckoning with the years lost and an opening toward reconciliation.
Aperture & Atelier EXB, 2024

Santa Barbara explores family, memory, and the American dream through a reconstruction of the artist’s family’s migration from post-Soviet Russia to the United States. Reimagining her family history from her mother’s perspective, Markosian seeks to understand her not only as a parent, but as a woman. In collaboration with the original writer of the TV series Santa Barbara, the artist developed a screenplay based on her family’s history and cast actors to portray them. Blurring the boundaries between documentary and fiction, the work examines how personal histories are reconstructed and performed, revealing the distance between lived experience and memory.
Aperture, 2020