In my work I am interested in time, place and memory. My art practice is performative and involves my body as a primal means of communication, affirming I am here. As a person of two cultures (Ethiopia and U.S.A), I am in a continuous dialogue between here and there, tradition and modernity, While collaging my past with present experiences, I attempt to make a third entity that is in both the past and the present. My effort to make a narrative is left ambiguous, so that the line between what is real and what is imagined, what is sensical, and nonsensical becomes faint. By refusing a concrete representation, I have found the freedom to make art that is consistent with the flux of my life.

Ezra Wube (b. 1980, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia). Ezra moved to the United States at the age of 18 and received his BFA in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and an MFA from Hunter College, New York, NY. His works encompassing painting, video, installations, photography and performance.

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