Tizta Berhanu, Appeasement, 2021, Courtesy of the Artist and Addis Fine Art
(...) Ethiopian artist Tizta Berhanu explores humanity’s full spectrum of emotions in her figurative paintings. Narratives of love, affection, friendship, and motherhood flow across her gestural, colourful compositions. Rendered in dreamlike transparent washes, her paintings ebb and flow in a subtle equilibrium of soft opacity and glowing vibrancy. Her figures, often interlaced in an embrace, express the beauty of human touch. (...)