Abebe’s poetic inflections lead him into a study of human behaviour, through which the body becomes a vehicle for the navigation of modern surroundings.
By way of examining the transformations of interaction between bodies and structures, technology and forms, there emerges a unique conception in the public sphere. Abebe’s beings exist between borders, and having done away with the bureaucracy and confinement of everyday life, they are given an imagined autonomy born of a doubling of concurrent states of being both anywhere and nowhere.