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Invetsec Cape Town Art Fair
Generations Booth G8
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Psychonaut
solo Exhibition
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CARTHOGRAPHIES of the Collective
A solo exhbition by Dagim Abebe
CARTOGRAPHIES of the collective
solo exhibition 11 October - 11 November 2025Cartographies of the Collective maps the intricate terrain of memory, history, and belonging. This exhibition, which features Dagim's painting and drawing, approaches cartography not as a technical act of measuring land, but as a poetic and critical practice. It traces how collective experience is inscribed onto space, bodies, and consciousness, revealing the layers of experience that shape our identity.
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Fresh Voices
Group exhibition
The Space Ethiopia is proudly presnting Fresh Voices a group exhibition showcasing the incredible talents of emerging artists from Addis Ababa. This exhibition curated by Dagim Abebe highlights the transitional journey of newly graduated students into the artworld.
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'Woven Memories' Artist Talk | Birhanu Manaye, 2025
'የተሸመኑ ትዉስታዎች' የሥነ-ጥበብ ውይይት | በብርሃኑ ማናዬ"Woven Memories" Birhanu Manaye's Woven Memories unfolds as a material conversation between absence and presence, where domestic relics become living archives. This exhibition-repurposed curtain, its floral pattern bleeding through layers of silkscreened print, hangs like a suspended memory. Discarded linens stitched with photographic fragments form a palimpsest of private and collective histories. Here, every textile is a contested territory, its stains, and repairs mapping the quiet revolutions of cultural survival. Birhanu's artistic methodology mirrors the very processes he examines: the deliberate unraveling of fabrics becomes an analog for cultural deconstruction, while the reassembly through print and stitch proposes radical renewal. Central to the exhibition is “The River of Memory”, an installation of silkscreen print with objects used for daily life household activity, each thread connecting personal loss to collective memory erasure. Nearby, Threshold reworks are not aesthetic juxtapositions but deliberate collisions, where material tension becomes a historical dialogue. What emerges is neither nostalgia nor rupture, but what theorist Ariella Aïsha Azoulay terms "potential history" is the active renegotiation of meaning through material intervention. When Birhanu dips he isn't blending cultures but exposing their power dynamics. This exhibition asks viewers to reconsider their role as cultural custodians: How do we honor what we must alter? When does preservation become betrayal? This makes the theory urgently personal. Woven Memories ultimately argues that heritage isn't inherited; it's stitched together daily from what we dare to repurpose.- Dagim Abebe, Curator
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