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Julie Mehretu

Hineni (E. 3:4) (Me voici)

2018

Julie Mehretu
(1970, Ethiopie)

Hineni (E. 3:4)
(Me voici)

2018

To make this painting, Mehretu used Photoshop to combine images of the Rohingya Muslim community fires in Burma in 2017 and the California wildfires in 2018.


Julie Mehretu creates abstract works with a calligraphic and musical touch, which evoke the sociocultural transformations related to migration. This work summons the transfiguring power of painting around the motif of fire, as hinted by the title of the work ("Here I am" in Hebrew), which refers to the story of the burning bush in the Old Testament. Between climate calamity, ethnic cleansing and symbolic resilience, the artist establishes an incandescent and ambiguous cartography of the world today.

Domain Peinture
Techniques

Encre et acrylique sur toile

Dimensions

243,8 x 304,8 cm

Acquisition

Don de la George Economou Collection, 2019.

Inventory no. AM 2019-727

Artist Julie Mehretu
(1970, Ethiopie)
Main title

Hineni (E. 3:4)

(Me voici)

Creation date

2018

Domain Peinture
Techniques

Encre et acrylique sur toile

Dimensions

243,8 x 304,8 cm

Acquisition

Don de la George Economou Collection, 2019.

Collection area

Arts Plastiques - Création contemporaine et prospective

Inventory no. AM 2019-727

By the same artist

Julie Mehretu

Sans titre

2021

Julie Mehretu

Sans titre

2021

Julie Mehretu

Sans titre

2021

Julie Mehretu

Sans titre

2021

Julie Mehretu

Sans titre

2021

External links

La collection du Musée national d’art moderne