“At Liyou we understand the importance of individuality and thus we endorse unique tendencies and celebrate imperfections. BeLiyou means distinguishing yourself from the rest, what makes you Liyou?”
“This is a platform to celebrate the pool of creativity and talent that emanates from Ethiopia and beyond. We envision that our readers will be as delighted as we are by the wealth of artistic imagination that surrounds each piece profiled by the Shemane team.”
Meklit Hadero is an Ethiopian-born singer, musician, and Resident Artist at the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco. Drawing inspiration from Jazz instrumentalists, American songwriters, and Ethiopian vocalists, Meklit’s music is at home in multiplicity. Lyrically focused, with a honey voice alternately delicate and vast, she quite literally dances the music alive.
”It is an exciting time to be an artist in Ethiopia. The country is going a self expression out pour and the chosen modem seems to be Art. That is not to say the other modes are not present; on the contrary, the large cities in Ethiopia are seeing a flourish of talents peaking in the areas of stage theatre, movies and poetry. In all of this self expression journey what one finds effortlessly is the bed of the Ethiopian culture that is woven into the every day life of the people. The intricate detail found in some of the Art work presented with Hanatzeb captures the moment the artist and a country collide.”
Helina has shown her fine art at galleries, museums, and festivals, including the Eubie Blake Cultural Center in Baltimore, the World Space Center in Washington, DC, and Casa Frela Gallery in New York City.More
Mehretu was born in Addis Ababa in 1970 and lives and works in New York. She has exhibited in several important group exhibitions including ‘Poetic Justice’, 8th Istanbul Biennial (2003), Whitney Biennial (2004), São Paolo Biennial (2004), Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2004) and Biennale of Sydney (2006). Solo exhibitions include Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, REDCAT, Los Angeles and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2003), St Louis Art Museum (2005) and MUSAC, Léon, Spain (2006). Read more
