ELIAS SIME

BORN 1968, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
LIVES&WORKS Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Elias Sime skillfully weaves, stratifies and carefully assembles selected everyday materials, transforming common objects into abstract lyrical compositions that suggest topographies, figurations and colour fields. He creates complex jobs from electronic components, such as printed circuit boards, USB keys, and telecommunication cables. His works allude to the tenuity of our interconnected world, to the frictions between tradition and progress, human contact and social networks, nature and man-made, physical and virtual presence.

SIGNS

  • Tightrope, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, 2021
  • NOISELESS, James Cohan, New York, USA, 2019
  • Min Neber, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2004
MAGAZINE
The Bag 2022