A French artist of Armenian origin, Achot Achot was one of the founding members of the avant-garde Armenian movement known as the Third Floor in Yerevan before creating a stir in 1989 in Paris at the Salpetriere chapel in a show titled The Avant-Garde from Armenia to Paris.
Achot Achot exhibits internationally: his theoretically-informed art is also remarkable for its technical and artistic qualities. Since 1988 his work has followed the dictates of a movement that he founded, which among other things sees itself as the 'last example/denomination of abstract art,' a meditative and spiritual art that is meant to have a profound effect on the viewer. His art is spiritual, not religious. Achot Achot's painted work represents an original form that he repeats indefinitely using different means and media ('supports'). Although visually different, Achot's photographic work is linked to a concept in his painting which he terms afactum, a name which he gives to all of his artistic creations: painting, photography, video, installation pieces etc… His photographic work takes up the spiritual basis that one finds in his painting, which is the source of his true innovation. His compositions are laden with unconscious and visual references to Armenian culture and to Western art historical traditions.

Yet in this new approach to photography he eschews the use of narrative mise-en-sc?ne, and storylines: rather, the work is a meditative, contemplative process. As in painting, each photograph is unique, the result of numerous studies on paper and in-situ research. Achot Achot's work lies somewhere between abstraction and figuration, two categories that he uses interchangeably, always following however the same 'mediatative field' that one finds in his numerous writings.