Tiemar Tegene

Tiemar Tegene, born in 1993 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, received a BFA in printmaking at AAU Alle school of fine Art and design in 2018 E.C. She is a full-time studio artist and uses different print techniques with a high focus on etching.

Tiemar is interested in the boundaries that exist among human beings: those that materialize naturally and others that are constructed. She explores the use of these boundaries as a tool for power and control. The people who appear in her works are nameless; they are tributes to the "disappeared", the "rejected", those who are considered "collateral damage", the "disenfranchised"; they are "figures", "victims", and "statistics". She believes denying the occurrence of human tragedies across the world does not make them disappear. On the contrary, atrocities such as torture, poverty, injustice cast shadows on our fragile comfort zones.

BFA in printmaking at AAU Alle school of fine Art and design in 2018