Dawit L. Petros’ multidisciplinary practice centres on critical re-readings of the relationship between East African histories and European modernism. Petros’ work across photography, video, archival material and installation, is informed by extensive global travel and research on the entanglements between colonialism and modernity. He reframes archival materials to offer speculative meditations on transcultural space and the geopolitics of a region. His works raise questions concerning displacement, migration, mobility and resettlement, as well as the connection of people through the specific geographies of Italy, Eritrea, Cuba and Canada. From the Edge of the Horizon – a two-part exhibition presented at the University of Saskatchewan College Art Galleries and Remai Modern – gathers works that chart Petros’ longstanding inquiries into geography, identity, and migration. The exhibition title draws our attention to the recurring horizon line connecting many of Petros’ bodies of work and their disparate global geographies. From the Edge of the Horizon II includes works from four major series: The Stranger’s Notebook, Spazio Disponibile, Reinscriptions, and As the Nile Flows and the Camel Walks.

Image 2) Dawit L. Petros, Shahee (Tea), Archival pigment print, 30 x 17.50”, 2005. Courtesy of the artist, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal and Tiwani Contemporary, London © the artist, 2025.

Dawit L. Petros is a visual artist, researcher and educator. He completed an MFA in Visual Art at Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; a BFA in Photography at Concordia University, Montreal; and a BA in History at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. He has also participated in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum in New York City. Petros is an Associate Professor of Studio Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He is represented by Tiwani Contemporary in London, UK and Bradley Ertaskiran in Montreal, Canada.

Image 3) Dawit L. Petros, Untitled (Prologue II), Nouakchott, Mauritania, 2016, archival color pigment print, 30 x 37.50”. Courtesy of the artist, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal and Tiwani Contemporary, London © the artist, 2025.