Habtamu Tibebe
So if the world changed to peace in the morning, it would become a bright day full of hope. A better life cycle would begin by itself. This world must have enough peace.
In our current global climate, the line between war and peace has become dangerously blurred. The artwork captures this tension through the following elements:
Internal Sabotage: The imagery reflects a species in conflict with its own essence. We appear as both the archer and the target — the builder and the iconoclast.
The Blue Witness: The stark, stylized blue figures stand as silent observers, or spirits of peace, juxtaposed against the chaotic and fractured textures of the central form. They embody the persistent yet often disregarded call for equilibrium.
Symbolic Language: The use of glyph-like symbols suggests that although our technology continues to evolve, our primal impulses toward dominance and destruction remain unchanged.
Habtamu Tibebe, an Ethiopian artist born in 1990, explores the enduring and ephemeral nature of human civilization in his profound work Echoes Through Time: A Human Tapestry. Habtamu envisions our collective human journey as a continuous tapestry woven across time. Through intricate textures, fragmented forms, and dynamic interplay of light and shadow, he evokes the echoes of past empires, the complex realities of our present, and the speculative contours of our future. His art is deeply grounded in history, drawing from the vestiges of ancient cultures — their achievements, mythologies, and societal structures.
„The Conflict of Self“, acrylic and mixed media on canvas (90×100cm)