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Etiyé Dimma Poulsen was born in 1968 in Aroussi, Ethiopia. After studying at the Institute of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, she moved to France, where she fought to have a sculpture oriented elsewhere than in ethnic shops, in the middle of copies of old masks and tourist crafts.

She then began organizing exhibitions, one after the other, in Europe and Africa, where she exhibited her work at the MAM Gallery in Douala.

The sculptures of Etiyé Dimma are made of ceramics reinforced by a sort of mesh structure covered with a thin layer of clay.

This approach is traditional, yet Etiye does not consider his tribal style. She reinvents the archetypes of primitive art, since the treatment of the material, inspired by her memories, her nostalgia, her link with this continent that she left for a very long time now ...

His work is not only African. It includes elements of ancient Greek art, Oriental art and prehistoric Venus ...

Etiyé Dimma sculpts the human being in his deepest nakedness ...

Selected Works