MIRIAM HILLAWI ABRAHAM

WHERE Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
PEOPLE Miriam Hillawi Abraham (b. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1994)

Miriam Hillawi Abraham is a designer and multi-disciplinary artist from Addis Abeba. She uses digital media and design as tools to explore the future from an inter-sectional feminist perspective. On show area series of visual narratives developed upon rock-hewn churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Her goal is to discover and integrate the presence of those who have been marginalized by the dominant conservative ethics in modern Ethiopian society. Three narratives characterize the project: a parody of Indiana Jones as white saviour, the Ethiopian conservative orthodox Christian male, and Hotep, a cis man who supports black people without being particularly progressive.

SIGNS

  • Museum of Monstrology, with Heejoon June Yoon, Backwater, Pocoapoco, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2023
  • Khaliya: Future Domesticities, 2021
  • Abyssinian Cyber Vernaculus, 2019-2022
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