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Gela 2
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Gela 2 (Excerpt): Stop-action animation mixed materials, on a single canvas, 2'
In this piece I am exploring the idea of Pluralism through autobiography.
As a person who moved between geographies (Ethiopia, U.S.A.) time and place are no longer singular for me. I am in a continuous dialogue negotiating “Here” and “There”.
These fragmentations are reconciled through the storytelling aspects of my work, as means to connects multiple realities. For me, an imaginative relationship is necessary to adapt to a new environment, to embrace the here and now, and to connect with the ephemeral in the everyday. While collaging my past with present experiences, I attempt to make a third entity that is in both the past and the present in which places and time are continuously shifting.
Exhibitions
2019" "YES", Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018: "Art, Artists & You", Children's Museum of Manhatten, NY
2017: "Work in Progress", Childrens Museum of Art, NY
| 2016: | "Borderless: In Perspective", presented by New York Foundation for the Arts, Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin |
| 2015: | "Palindrome", curated and presented by Art in General, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia "Movement/History: Home", EX NUNC, online exhibition "Movement/History: Home", EX NUNC, online exhibition "Gela 2", AC Institute, New York, NY |
| 2014: | "Set in Motion", Purdue University, Fountain Gallery, Lafayette, IN "Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy" "Pangea", New York State Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
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| 2013: | "INSTA /Show and Tell Media Festivals", University of Tennessee, Knoxville "Public video screening", solo show, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation "Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy" |
| 2012 | "The Santa Fe International New Media Festival", Santa Fe, New Mexico "Multiplexer's September Exhibition", Las Vegas, NV |