Between Cultural Memory and Speculative Imagination: A Conversation with Fanuel Leul

In a field still marked by the illusion that technical innovation, in itself, amounts to aesthetic and political renewal, Fanuel Leul’s work matters for more demanding reasons. An Ethiopian artist trained at the Alle School of Fine Arts, with a background in industrial design and three-dimensional modeling, Leul works precisely at the point where the digital image ceases to be mere software virtuosity and becomes a dispute over who has the right to project the future, through which signs, and from what cultural memory.