In his talk on November 17, 2025 at the Anarad Hığutyun Building, David Kazanjian reflected on how Sarkis’s exhibitions Respiro (Venice Biennale, 2015) and 7 Tage, 7 Nächte (Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2024) invite us to rethink the idea of reparation. Rather than understanding reparation as a return to a time before harm- a promise to restore wholeness- Kazanjian focuses on what remains when the “re-” is removed: the now largely forgotten notion of “paration,” understood as a process of readiness and departure without a fixed origin or end. Through Sarkis’s work, he proposes a way of thinking that moves away from repair as closure and instead embraces a state of perpetual becoming- a threshold, a tipping point- where parts exist without the necessity of a lost or promised whole. The talk opened space for considering justice, memory, and art not as acts of completion, but as ongoing processes.