Ermias Ekube

This documentary presents the artistic practices of the Eritrean Artist Ermias Ekube.
This film is completed by the publication of a monograph about the artist, available on our website.
About Ermias Ekube:
Born in 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ermias Ekube studied at the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design, a pioneering institution of modern art education in Ethiopia, founded in 1958. From initial experimentations with modernism and poetry to later works highlighting the immigrants’ plight, Ekube’s works have evolved to explore identity, memory, and the humanness that lies in revising memories through the process of recollection. Portraiture has remained a constant fascination for reflecting on the self and the society. Juxtaposing the immediate perceived truth in traditional figurative painting with texts, symbolic objects, and mirrors that inaccurately reflect the flotsam of daily life, Ekube has charged his works with increasing conceptual tension about time and reality throughout his career.
About Almas Art Foundation:
Almas Art Foundation (AAF) is a London-based non-profit organisation that is committed to celebrating the invaluable contributions made by African and African diaspora artists to Modern and contemporary visual arts.
AAF aims to present and create an awareness for the practices of established and mid-career African and African diaspora artists through a programme of publications, exhibitions and films, documenting these artists’ practices for a new generation of African artists, scholars and the wider international art community.
AAF aims to foster collaborations with emerging artists, curators and writers to support the arts ecosystem in Africa and facilitate residencies through partnerships with universities, institutions and independent initiatives.
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Desert City by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The Unfolding by Sean Williams
Afro-Campano by Bottega Baltazar