Following his presentation at the inaugural Ethiopian Pavillion at La Biennale di Venezia, Saatchi Yates presents 14 paintings by Tesfaye Urgessa created between Addis Ababa, Nürtigen and Padua. The selection of paintings made in the past 2 years demonstrate the compositional development of Urgessa’s unique works and how the artist’s personal experience of prejudice has profoundly shaped his artistic practice. Tesfaye Urgessa comments, “I want my figures to have almost an emotional vulnerability… I want to keep them confident but at the same time fragile. They have been through something but made it. You might see a scar, but it’s not a mark of defeat.”