FREYA TEWELDE

The Artist

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Conscious Isolation

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Freya Tewelde is a multidisciplinary artist  born in Asmara, Eritrea, currently  working in London, UK.

Her work and research center around questions of aesthetics and domination through playfulness. In her work, she directly exposes its contradictions, differences and singularities through the use of the body as an archive. Her way of investigating this theme is through history, memory, repetition and the distortion of existence. She uses mundane objects and motifs to ignite a praxis of post-identity, which is specifically evident in her video performances. Becoming instruments to activate and highlight the socio-political imbalance and self-care with singularity.


For ‘Digital Touch’, Tewelde’s exhibits a new series of collaborative films produced within the local community context and in continuance to her existing practice. She films with instructed movements (or actions) and sounds that explore how participants’ expose a given restrictions of social distancing. Focusing on rebuilding and repairing the cultural and community blind spots post Covid19 via digital body interconnectivity in a new series of installation that expose our shared social context within local community circumstances. Committed to fixing roots and mending traumatic experiences that define and isolate self-care.

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Freya Tewelde graduated in Development Studies from the Middlesex University and completed her Masters in Fine Arts from the Chelsea College (UAL).