Studio

Elazar Tamano's work engages with his Black, Ethiopian, and Israeli identity - and with the meeting point between personal memory, family, migration, and culture. As the son of a Prisoner of Zion who worked with the Mossad in Sudan, his family's story and their immigration to Israel run through his work and form a starting point for his art. Alongside his Ethiopian roots, life in Israel and its encounter with local culture also enter his visual language. For Tamano, Ethiopian cuisine serves as inspiration, material, and medium - a point of departure into cultures, imagery, and stories from across the African continent. Tamano works primarily in linocut printmaking, often incorporating culinary materials and tools into his pieces. Food, art, and culture meet in his work to form one language - personal, contemporary, and rooted.