Writing
His writing for CEN Network and Refresh Magazine examines curatorial practice, exhibition-making and the ways artistic work is framed for audiences. He studies curatorial approaches closely, paying particular attention to the assumptions, exclusions and unresolved tensions within them. Through reviews and essays, he identifies what he finds problematic and considers how these issues might be addressed, clarified or reimagined.
Curatorial Ethics Network · Essay · 15 September 2025
In recent years, inclusivity has emerged as one of the defining questions of contemporary curatorial practice. It is no longer sufficient to view inclusivity as a matter of representation alone.
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Refresh Magazine · Essay · 7 October 2026
As a curator from the Global South, I have grown increasingly frustrated with the language that dominates contemporary discussions around decolonization.
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Curatorial Ethics Network · Essay · 6 November 2025
The curatorial field has entered a phase of moral fatigue. After more than a decade of exhibitions promising diversity and representation, the language of ethics risks becoming aestheticised and absorbed into the institutional grammar of global art.
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Curatorial Ethics Network · Essay · 5 October 2026
What happens when an exhibition asks us to engage with something uncomfortable? What responsibilities belong to the artist who makes the work, the institution that presents it, and the audience encountering it?
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UKS Oslo · Speaker · 17–18 January 2026
Dawit spoke as a curator at this two-day public symposium of curatorial research, experimental presentations and collective exercises, presented by the MA in Curating at Aarhus University.
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Curatorial Ethics Network · Essay · 20 August 2026
There is an irony I cannot ignore: I am writing this in English, a language that does not belong to me, shaped by the same colonial systems I am critiquing.
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