Helina Metaferia Takes Back the Museum

The Ethiopian-American artist creates her own artifact to highlight a lineage of Black female activism.
Lin-Ming Hu, Hyperallergic, August 8, 2025
NEWARK — Helina Metaferia’s deep engagement with pan-African and African-American aesthetics, as well as the visual language of protest, reverberates throughout her solo exhibition When Civilizations Heal. The culmination of the Ethiopian-American artist’s two-year residency at New Jersey non-profit Project for Empty Space, and one of her largest shows to date, it comprises sculpture, performance, video, and the photocollages for which she is perhaps best known. 
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