Bunna Cafe Presents Addis Flux With Ezra Wube - 05-07.06.15
Addis Flux brought to you by Bunna Cafe will feature Ethiopian visual artist and stop motion animator Ezra Wube for Bushwick Open Studios, Friday June 5 to Sunday June 7.
Ezra Wube (b. 1980, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is a mixed media artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA and an MFA from Hunter College, New York, NY. Through autobiography Ezra's work references mobility, time and place.
His exhibit, ADDIS FLUX reflects and examines the current state of the city where he grew up, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The city is in the midst of massive transformation. It is expanding drastically, over a quarter of its current residents relocating to new neighborhoods. Old communities are disappearing and new ones are forming.
"In my work I’m interested in place, time and mobility. Anonymous groups of figures in movement and unspecified places have been recurring themes. Due to my own experience of moving to the US from Ethiopia at the age of 18, 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. My effort to make a narrative is left ambiguous so that the line between what is real and what is imagined, what is sensical, and nonsensical becomes faint. By refusing a concrete representation, I have found the freedom to make art that is consistent with the flux of my life."
Ezra's portraits will be on our walls all weekend.
Come for brunch between 11 and 5 to view his stop motion animation exhibits.
On Saturday and Sunday at 5pm, Ezra will make a presentation of his art in person, in conjunction with The Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony.
