Eba Morka (b. 1999, Ethiopia) is a printmaker blending traditional Ethiopian motifs with contemporary practice. Trained at Addis Ababa University’s Alle School of Fine Arts (BFA 2025), his layered prints explore identity and memory through texture, symbolism, and experimental techniques, transforming cultural heritage into introspective, visually rich narratives.
My practice grapples with the unresolved tensions of human existence, mortality, suffering, displacement, and systemic injustice, filtered through the duality of personal memory and collective consciousness. I channel these themes into visceral visual languages, where expressive mark-making and kinetic forms become vessels for emotional excavation.
The figure serves as my primary lexicon, though it often fractures into gestural abstractions: bodies dissolve into strokes of resistance, collapse into erasures, or convulse into unrestrained movements. The canvas functions alternately as a battleground, a wound, and a site of metamorphosis, where pain and catharsis perform their relentless dance.
Through this interplay of controlled gesture and chaotic form, I map the dissonance between internal turmoil and external forces. My work does not seek resolution but insists on confrontation, inviting viewers to recognize their own complicity and resilience within these shared struggles.