Author Dagim Abebe Image by author. “The archive is not a neutral box of documents but a system of power, a form of knowledge, and a battlefield of memory.”— Michel Foucault To speak of archiving Ethiopian art is to enter a space where visibility, silence, survival, and resistance intersect. Archives are never passive; they construct narratives as much as they preserve them. In the Ethiopian context, where official repositories are limited and artistic memory often survives t