
A native of Ethiopia (b. 1972), Betelhem Makonnen,

An continual blending of anthropological, philosophic, and historical (both personal and collective) inquiries provides the platform for the development of the conceptual foundation of my practice. My works in photography, video and installation translate perception, presence, and place within a trans-temporal and trans-spacial topology that operates on the relational dynamics of an African diasporic consciousness.
With unfixed, many-ed, and dis-identified figures as points of departure, I use strategies of (re)combinations and (re)configurations to activate in-between spaces existing in paradoxes, feedback loops and sites of connection. My ultimate interest is to create fugitive perceptual experiences uncontained by the logics of hegemonic sensorial vocabularies.
With unfixed, many-ed, and dis-identified figures as points of departure, I use strategies of (re)combinations and (re)configurations to activate in-between spaces existing in paradoxes, feedback loops and sites of connection. My ultimate interest is to create fugitive perceptual experiences uncontained by the logics of hegemonic sensorial vocabularies.
