Body Vs Soul (green), 2026
Painting : acrylic · 100 x 70 x 0.2 cm 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
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100 x 70 x 0.2 cm 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
This is a mixed-media work created through paper peeling and painting on Balacron paper. The work explores the relationship between physical presence and inner existence through the image of a draped female figure.
The form appears as a woman covered by fabric, yet the body beneath the cloth remains unseen. The drapery becomes both a representation of the body and a suggestion of its absence. What should reveal the physical figure instead conceals it, creating a space between what is visible and what is felt.
This tension is the foundation of my Body vs Soul series. I am interested in the moment when the body becomes almost secondary to the presence of the soul. The covered figure can suggest vulnerability, memory, identity, protection, or spiritual existence without relying on a visible face or recognizable physical form.
Through layers of peeled paper, painted surfaces, texture, and the green tonal field, I create a fragmented and tactile surface that reinforces this sense of uncertainty. The work asks where the body ends and the soul begins—and whether something can remain present even when the physical body is hidden.
The draped cloth therefore becomes more than clothing: it becomes a body without a body, a visible form carrying an invisible presence.
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Leikun Nahusenay (b. 1982) is a multidisciplinary visual artist who currently resides and works in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Despite being self-taught in painting, he graduated from the Ale School of Fine Arts (2006) and Teferi Mekonnen School of Art (2011). Leikun is a member of Netsa Art village and affiliated with NasGedame Studio.
The artist creates paintings, photographs, collages, sculptures, prints, and textile works. His art practice is about memory, spirituality, and physical presence as well as transformation of material, surface, and time through rich imagery and experimental techniques. Leikun uses double exposure superimposition collage and scratch and peel collage to create ghostly fusions of the real and imagined worlds in his photographic work.
The artist has exhibited his work in various local and international galleries and museums. These include Threads of Life in Fragments of Time at the Art Basel Miami Beach, 2025–26; Fondation Blachère (France, 2019); Salon Zürcher Art Fair, New York, 2017; Asni Gallery, Addis Ababa, 2016; and Addis Fine Art, 2016. He has also been featured in the 1:54 contemporary art fair, London (2019); Dos Mares, Marseille (France, 2018); Addis Fine Art (2016); and Asni Gallery (2015). Besides his art practice, Leikun participates in photography fairs such as the Bamako Encounters Photography Biennale (Mali) and Picha Biennale (Lubumbashi, Congo, 2010).
Moreover, Leikun teaches art to children with special needs on a yearly basis.
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