NADA Curated: As It Unfolds
Organized with Fitsum Shebeshe
March 15 – April 15, 2025
Curatorial Concept:
Organized with Fitsum Shebeshe
March 15 – April 15, 2025
Curatorial Concept:
As It Unfolds explores human transformation as a continuous and evolving process shaped by the interplay of time, memory, and experience. This online exhibition invites artists from all disciplines to contribute works that examine how moments of becoming —whether personal, collective, or imagined—unfold and take shape. Rather than viewing becoming as a fixed state or linear progression, the exhibition highlights its cyclical and iterative nature. Time acts as both subject and medium, revealing the intricate connections between past, present, and future. Artists are encouraged to explore how their work reflects the tension between permanence and impermanence, addressing themes such as layered histories, speculative futures, and recurring patterns of change.
Through diverse practices, As It Unfolds illuminates the dynamic and fluid nature of human transformation, inviting audiences to reflect on their evolving relationships with time and change. By engaging with these works, viewers are prompted to consider how moments of transition resonate across time, shaping our perceptions of identity, connection, and progress. This exhibition fosters a dialogue on the mutable essence of existence and the temporal structures that frame it, encouraging discovery and introspection at every turn.
About Fitsum Shebeshe
Fitsum Shebeshe is a curator and painter based in Washington, DC, and Baltimore, Maryland. He is the curator of States of Becoming, a traveling exhibition produced by Independent Curators International (ICI). Before moving to the United States in 2016, he was Assistant Curator at the National Museum of Ethiopia. In 2012, Shebeshe co-founded the 1957 Initiative to annually celebrate the liberation of African countries from colonialism through the arts. His curatorial projects include the 1957 Art Show at the National Museum of Ethiopia (2013), Depart Africa at the Baltimore School for the Arts (2017), Sculpture Now: Washington Sculptures Group at Harmony Regional Center (2022), and More Than One Memory at Unlit London (2024). Shebeshe holds an MFA in Curatorial Practice and Critical Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).