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Addis Gezehagn’s large-scale collage works are made by layering magazine cut-outs with acrylic paint, creating dreamlike cityscapes which defy scale and introduce new perspectives. These patchwork cityscapes capture the random pattern of living, one structure on top of another, that has gradually and organically developed in the Ethiopian capital. Gezehagn reimagines Addis Ababa and its unrestrained urbanity, his Floating Cities attendant to the transformations that continuously occur in the city.
Engdaye Lemma’s experimental print-making practice synthesises screen-printing, painting, and …