Merikokeb Berhanu Untitled LVI, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Addis Fine Art.
[...] Merikokeb Berhanu, Giardini, Central Pavilion
Alemani cites Berhanu as an example of artists who create “new forms of symbiosis between animals and human beings”, crafting “narratives that interweave environmental concerns with ancient chthonic deities, yielding innovative ecofeminist mythologies”. The Ethiopian artist, who now lives in Maryland, makes paintings that appear abstract at a distance, but clearly contain bodily aspects, as well as forms that suggest both landscapes and cellular organisms. Berhanu has said that her work evokes the rupture of her emigration to the US. [...]
