Memory from the past, self-portrait, 2009, Inkjet Print, 55X80

Or explores her own biography and observes the community she came from and Israeli society in general. The photograph is a self portrait of a young Ethiopian woman, dressed in men’s underwear. Her knees bear signs of a struggle, or dust from the road, or some sort of genuflection - the signs of a physical and emotional plight. The work reproves Israeli and western society for accepting immigrants from third world countries and then treating them as foreigners or servants. It also refers to a self definition of identity and the search for independence as a woman in a strict.patriarchal society.

Biography

Born in Ethiopia, 1985 | Lives and works In Mitzpe Ramon | Graduated from Musrara in 2010 | Presented a Solo Exhibition in The Jerusalem Artists’ House ( 2012) and participated in Group Exhibition in Israel and abroad: Museum of Photography, Industrial Park Tel- Hai (2010); Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv (2013); Photography Biennial, Amsterdam (2012) and more