Endless Cities
2009-2014
Collage
Materials: mixed media on paper
Collection: Courtesy the artist and Galerie Kusseneers, Brussels.
This series of works is the core of Kifleyesus’ socially engaged practice, produced in international telephone cabins around Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent. Many are produced using folded paper posters and advertisements that portray some of the world’s most renowned and photogenic celebrities of western culture. Yet, following their exposure to the daily flow of visitors to the cabin, their images become slowly obliterated, often to the point of unrecognisability. Images of idealised beauty are erased by the build-up from the combined abstract mark-making of many. (NH)
