Merikokeb Berhanu Untitled XLV, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
152,4 x 96,5 cm
Untitled XLV features fragments of the human body and encapsulates the conflation of vegetal, organic, and perhaps even mineral form. Multiple elongated shapes can be seen as abstract, organic, and human at the same time. Solid colors alternate with intricately patterned sections where lines can become cell membranes, currents of a stream, or a field of schematic technical detritus.