Hump Day Art: Modern Day Exodus

With Passover beginning this week, the theme of exodus seems inescapable. Luckily, artist and Six Point Fellow Avishai Mekonen has found the nuances in the term, which in recent history has often been applied to the Ethiopian Jews' migration to Israel. Mekonen uses photography and sound in his project Seven Generations, documenting how the lives of Ethiopian immigrants have changed as they adapt to a new culture, and how traditions have been preserved.

Mekwanent Tamena, 2007

Sisters, 2007

The boy, 2007

Gitanna Kivret, 2007

Girls, 2007

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