Ezra Wube (b. 1980, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia). Ezra moved to the United States at the age of 18 and received his BFA in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and an MFA from Hunter College, New York, NY. His works encompassing video, installations, drawing, painting and performance.

In my work I am interested in time, place and memory. In my work I'm in a continuous dialogue between here and there, tradition and modernity. While collaging my past with present experiences, I attempt to make a third entity that is in both the past and the present. These fragmentations are reconciled through the performative aspects of my work. My body becomes a witness that connects multiple realities. It serves as a direct means of communication to embrace the here and now, and to connect with the ephemeral in the everyday.

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