Zelalem Merga was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 20st of Feb, 1989. Graduated in 2013 with BFA from Addis Ababa University Alle School of Fine Art. Zelalem is well known for the use of found objects which others consider garbage. Of great interest were his group exhibitions at the National Museum of Addis (2017), then in Germany (Mainz and Leipzig, 2017), then at the Alliance Ethio-Française (2019). A highly successful visual research on fragmentation, visual reconstruction (faces, scenes, political representations) by assembling recovered particles (CDs, telephones, magnetic tapes, etc.). Our modern and consumerist environment abounds with more or less audible clues and messages, in form and substance.