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ETHIOPIA


2001

Aicha, 2001

Gouache enhanced silver print (detail)

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ETHIOPIA
2001

Addis Abeba

“I’d met travellers who one day let themselves get taken in by the song of Ethiopian sirens. Their eyes blank as they got lost in whisky-soaked memories, they’d wander about disillusioned, forever broken-hearted."

Abstracts

"I arrived in Addis Ababa, six years ago already. So I set out to embark on this work, vague in nature except for the idea that it would be solely dedicated to portraits of women. Why start off with the Horn of Africa? Because I’d never been there before. Like many, I’d read Monfried and parts of the biography of Rimbaud.

I still remember a photo showing two Eritreans in Asmara, a living representation of the pictograms of ancient Egypt. I’d long dreamed of seeing with my own eyes the strange drawn-out silhouettes of the girls of Somalia.

The first thing I did when I arrived in Addis in 2001 was to draft a questionnaire that has barely changed over all these years - one that I give all my models in an identical form, whether they’re ministers, refugees, activists or prostitutes…"

Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard

Works

ETHIOPIA 2877
Lucy, 2001

Ethiopia
Gouache and pencil on paper
42 x 66 cm

ETHIOPIA 2879
Lucy 2, 2001

Ethiopia
Silver print
110 x 140 cm

ETHIOPIA 2885
Adey, 2001

Ethiopia
Acrylic on paper
46 x 74 cm

ETHIOPIA 2897
Hibiscus mauve, 2001

Ethiopia
Acrylic on paper
30 x 21 cm

ETHIOPIA 3544
Hibiscus mauve 2, 2001

Ethiopia
Acrylic on paper
30 x 21 cm

ETHIOPIA 3546
Addis Abeba, 2001

Ethiopie
Acrylic on paper
30 x 21 cm

ETHIOPIA 2881
Maji, 2001

Ethiopia
Gouache enhanced silver print
40 x 30 cm

ETHIOPIA 2883
Maji 2, 2001

Ethiopia
Gouache on paper
30 x 21 cm

ETHIOPIA 3548
Addis Adeba 2, 2001

Ethiopia
Gouache on paper
46 x 74 cm

ETHIOPIA 2889
Mako, 2001

Ethiopia
Gouache on paper
30 x 21 cm

ETHIOPIA 2891
Woinshet, 2001

Ethiopia
Gouache enhanced silver print
40 x 30 cm

Maps

ETHIOPIA 2874
Map of the Horn of Africa, 2001

Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm

ETHIOPIA 2875
Map of the Horn of Africa 2, 2001

Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm

Books

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