Kibir ክብር

For their Paris Photo 2025 solo presentation exhibited by Nguyen Wahed, Yatreda unveils a series of black and white motion portraits unified under the theme Kibir - those who are honored and those who bestow glory. Following their residency at the Toledo Museum of Art, where their House of Yatreda transformed the institutional space into something approaching a shrine to Ethiopian cultural heritage, this new presentation examines the lores of respect that bind generations. The journeys of the past unfold in parallel with the lives of the people to whom they belong. Though Yatreda’s media are manifold, they skillfully navigate the delicate terrain of remembrance, sometimes drawing from unsettled sources that animate Ethiopia’s long-forgotten stories of queens, glorified ones, and ancient realms. Beneath it all, a core of digital preservation and shared recollection remains, poised as a future palimpsest.