Ethiopian artist Mickaël Bethe-Selassie has created a forest of towering and colourful papier-mâché sculptures, which evokes a magical world of wombs and warriors, ghosts and mutant beasts. He sees himself as a symbolic reconstructor of those forests, which supplied the wood for the paper he works with. While strongly drawing from the mythology of his country and the rest of Africa, his work also resonates with influences from Tibet and Japan.
