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Crossing between cultures and self-portraiture

Abebe Gebremariam, Tamirat ( 2012)

My journeys have forced me to analyse the movements of contemporary art and the traditional ways of using the languages of painting to carry personal perceptions that generate memory. A single, personal story develops into a global story from the awareness of the particularity of migrant backgrounds and foreigners’ points of view. The story transforms into the body of work where thought processes are determined through physical engagement with the materialities of painting. Through painting the process of juxtaposed journeys is not only remembered, they are discovered. Through gesture and layers, forms interact with thought making a metaphoric suggestion of something like the topographical mapping of experience.