Artist in RESIDENCE: Nahom Teklehaimanot
During the Sarah Kravitz Residency Programme, artist Nahom Teklehaimanot developed a body of work exploring identity, memory, and lived experience through a fragmented approach to figurative painting.
Working across collage and painting, Teklehaimanot constructs layered compositions in which multiple perspectives coexist within a single image. His practice challenges fixed representations of the body, instead presenting it as fluid, constructed, and shaped by both personal and cultural narratives.
Central to his work is an engagement with displacement and the complexities of lived experience. Drawing from his background and experiences of migration, his paintings reflect on the psychological and emotional impact of navigating different social and political environments. Fragmentation operates as both a visual and conceptual device, allowing for the simultaneous presence of memory, perception, and identity.
During the residency, Teklehaimanot used the time and space to expand this approach, developing new works that further explored the relationship between figuration, collage, and multi-layered image construction. The residency environment provided an opportunity to refine these ideas within a focused studio context while engaging in dialogue with other artists.
