The 1980s were represented by Dimore [Dwellings], surfaces which
suggest architectural landscapes: buildings, doors, windows and thresholds, complete with their own shadows.
From a distance, the stacks of thousands of sheets of paper (24,549 total) that are set out in a grid onto the floor
suggest a
landscape, circuit boards, or an
architectural model for an imagined city.
Influenced by the events of the Arab Spring, the artist, who was born in 1970 in Addis - Ababa and works in New York, has again filled huge canvases with skeins upon skeins of
architectural plans, city maps, darting lines and free - flowing, undulating attacks of ink that are more powerful than ever, abstractly
suggesting wild rivers, treacherous mountains and bombed - out
landscapes.