Dawit L. Petros

Chrome is a long-term project that explores urban neighborhoods around the world. The work began with long walks through the neighbourhoods and around their borders. During these walks, colours and their attendant objects are collected. These colors are then translated into monochromatic fields to create Social Abstractions-works comprising photography, sculpture and painted wall murals. These Social Abstractions envelop the formal arena while offering an ambivalent reflection on urban African spaces and their historical formation. The murals and sculptures make simultaneous allusion to methods of abstraction and to colour and patterns drawn from African sensibilities. The result is an evocation of the hybrid sensibilities theorized by Uche Okekeʼs natural synthesis.