Ermias Kifleyesus

Ermias Kifleyesus (b. 1974, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, lives and works in Brussels) is an artist and a flâneur whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, writing, installation, performance, and archival gestures.

His improvisational practice draws on an interactive and ever-evolving archive—both participatory and research-based—composed of rejected paintings, traces, and tape markings gathered through conversations and public interventions, for example in telephone booths. Using a self-devised technique, he peels away layers and marks from this collected material, reassembling them into paintings and sculptures. The result is a body of work that embraces instability and opacity, remaining faithful to all that emerges in the cracks of things.

Ermias Kifleyesus

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