From Artpace:

"Betelhem Makonnen’s residency offering, unsettling narratives, is a meditation that considers presence and place in relation to memory and history within non-linear time. The works, made up of still and moving images, text, and installation, emphasize perception and seeing as a sensing that we do with the body and through the body across time. Throughout the gallery, we see repeating yet different signs of nature emergent from the source photograph and experience its foregrounding across different times and locations (from Southern California to Rio De Janeiro to the Texas Coast), reinforcing the artist’s conceptual foundation that accepts the future and the past as forms of the present, present in the present. unsettling narratives is an invitation to break with flat linear logic and to connect through a moving focus that opens and rearranges perception across time and space."