Dawit L. Petros

My mixed media installations occupy a space between minimalist abstraction and an itenerant narrative.  These “Social Abstractions” are invested in issues of colour and form that extend beyond the self-contained boundaries of the art object to encompass the circumstances that surround it. Questions of transformation, representational systems and strategies of site responsivity are the building blocks on which the various projects pivot: not only in relation to what is represented but also to what lies outside or at the edge of representation. For the viewer, the encounter with my works is with multiple forms that conjoin disparate cultural spaces and geographies, by utilizing forms of cultural production that insist on alternate ways to translate/read relationships to location.