Tesfaye Urgessa: The Lingering Departure — Tesfaye Urgessa

The figurative paintings of Ethiopian-born artist Tesfaye Urgessa suspend compressed and fragmented bodies within spaces that resist ordinary logic, drawing the viewer into oneiric scenarios in which distinctions of place and time appear to fold into one another.

Bringing together the artist’s most recent paintings, drawings and watercolours, The Lingering Departure extends this indeterminacy into matters of movement and migration.