The Library
Walls of books in five languages surround a reading table where Afewerk spent his mornings. The collection reveals the breadth of a mind that moved between Rimbaud, Tagore, the Kebra Nagast, and Picasso's notebooks without effort.
Walls of books in five languages surround a reading table where Afewerk spent his mornings. The collection reveals the breadth of a mind that moved between Rimbaud, Tagore, the Kebra Nagast, and Picasso's notebooks without effort. The room bears the marks of a life lived in proximity to beauty and to work. Nothing in it is accidental. Everything was chosen, made, or modified by the artist himself.
To enter this room is to enter a particular quality of attention. Villa Alpha was not built to impress visitors — it was built to sustain the conditions in which a certain kind of work becomes possible. This room is one of the instruments of that project.