“The beauty of life comes from the great variety of its expressions…”
Daniela Lauria / Art Critic
For Adonai Sebhatu, an Italian-Eritrean artist, artistic creation comes from observing the world around him.
The street becomes his personal workshop, from which he collects abandoned objects, to offer them a “new” possibility.
He prefers obsolete electrical materials, particularly computer keyboards, which he takes apart, disassembles, observes, and finally reworks, turning them into works of art.
This creative process, which comes about in a completely random way, changes and renews itself each time, because “the scraps” are always different and the techniques he experiments with also change, adapting to the objects themselves.
What an electric circuit has in common with a mannequin is his personal concept of beauty, which goes beyond the classical aesthetic canons, because beauty, according to Adonai, must be sought and grasped even where, apparently, it seems further away than ever.
The abandoned objects represent the struggles each of us faces in life, which, if rightly “transformed,” prove to be meaningful and valuable for our human and personal growth.
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