COLLAGE AS A WAY OF INTERTEXTUALITY (ACCORDING TO GURGEN KHANJYAN'S COLLAGES)

In the article, we have examined Gurgen Khanjyan's collages. Collage and collage thinking in general have a significant role in creating a connection between cultures, in dialogue and through this connection in discovering and understanding one's own identity. Beginning with an assessment of the narrativity of collage, this paper considers the communicative and structural poetics citing the example from Gurgen Khanjyan's works. We came to the conclusion that Gurgen Khanjyan, by intertwining the artistic text with other text insertions and collage coding, expressed the complex path of national and individual identity searches, creating a multimodal intertextual structure, where each text is the absorption and transformation of another text. By using various texts and text symbols of world and Armenian literature, Khanjyan created a new structure with interpretive findings, which comprehensively presents the picture of the path taken by the poor man since the creation of the world, as defined by the author, the persistent and constant search for salvation full of hardships, the way to get rid of suffering, which continues and will continue, is endless. Each of the collage sections of Khanjyan's works (i.e., the prose and collage-image combinations) can be read either individually or as components of a larger interconnected sequence.