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THE NIGHT THAT DREAMS — COSMOLOGIES OF SCALE    

Solo Exhibition at RADIUS, Delft, NL
Miriam Hillawi Abraham, 2026

Organic specimens in Gum Arabic and archival images on lightbox / 2026
Miriam Hillawi Abraham, The Night That Dreams : Cosmologies of Scale, RADIUS CCA, NL
Photo Credit: Sander van Wettum, courtesy of RADIUS


           

“This is the hour of the stars and of the Night that dreams reclining on that range of clouds, draped in its long gown of milk.
The roofs of the huts gleam gently. What are they so confidently telling to the stars? ”


- Léopold Sédar Senghor, Nuit de Sine, 1990
 


Exhibition View / 2026
Miriam Hillawi Abraham, The Night That Dreams : Cosmologies of Scale, RADIUS CCA, NL
Photo Credit: Sander van Wettum, courtesy of RADIUS

“RADIUS is pleased to present THE NIGHT THAT DREAMS — COSMOLOGIES OF SCALE, a solo exhibition by Miriam Hillawi Abraham. This exhibition marks a new iteration in her longstanding research on pre-colonial African cosmologies. This body of work studies and draws constellations between African cosmologies and spatial orders as multi-scalar repositories of lived knowledges and world-building traditions. Working intersectionally, she seeks to uphold the rich tapestry of African cosmologies whilst complicating Western colonial legacies, which have long dictated their (mis)understanding. Against a backdrop of Western canonical bias, standardisation and homogeneity, Abraham’s work is an expansive offering to know, practice, and imagine otherwise in reclaimed agency over ancestral traditions.” - RADIUS CCA 


Lens based floor projection of etching in Arabic Gum / 2026
Miriam Hillawi Abraham, The Night That Dreams : Cosmologies of Scale, RADIUS CCA, NL
Photo Credit: Sander van Wettum, courtesy of RADIUS

“In this exhibition, an array of elements constitute an observatory for speculative cosmological inquiry. Lenses, projections, specimens, maps, cosmograms, and talismans are means to study African cosmologies following a methodology of interscalarity: the observation and analysis of phenomena across different scales of time and space simultaneously, rather than in isolation and decontextualised from one another. This manifests in the constant interplay of size, distortion, and layering that the works engage with. Interscalarity is a conscious choice to not only reveal the entanglement between Sahelian cosmologies but to also embrace and reveal the material and epistemological plurality of indigenous navigation in the African continent, which has been long buried beneath the imposed Cartesian Logics of western cartography and astronomy.” - RADIUS CCA
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Miriam Hillawi Abraham is a multi-disciplinary designer from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With a background in Architecture, she works with digital media and spatial design to interrogate themes of equitable futurism and intersectionality. She holds an MFA in Interaction Design from the California College of the Arts and a BArch in Architecture from the Glasgow School of Art. She has worked as a game-code instructor at Bay Area Video Coalition’s youth program for over three years and is now a Mellon researcher for the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s Digital Now multidisciplinary project. Abraham's work has been featured in the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia as part of the Special Project “Guests from the Future”,  as well the "/imagine: A Journey into The New Virtual" exhibition at the MAK Museum of Applied Arts, the 2nd Sharjah Architecture Triennial and the 14th Shanghai Biennale, “Cosmos Cinema.”



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