
Gabriel Embeha is neither an artist name nor any other kind of pseudonym. It is, simultaneously, a person, a place and a thing. It is an interactive series of biographically resistant stories being related across a network of interconnected, really made-up authors, actors, and access points. It something, someone or somewhere you too could be. In the telling of these stories, objects, moving objects, and writing are being collapsed into one another.
Through a continual, mixed media interweaving of graphic and photographic depiction, performance, film, and writing, Gabriel Embeha has exhibited, written and performed under different names. The diverse range of persons, places, and things it works through involve different forms of disability, intimacy, and violence. Its process is an ongoing series of quasi-ethnographic confrontations with scientific representation, the state, conscience, and futility.
A three-page excuse for a biographical sketch is here.
A wider description of some aspects of Gabriel Embeha’s work can be read in an interview by the art magazine Peripheral Arteries.