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Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to announce Breaks and Suspensions, an exhibition by Israeli-born, New York- based artist Naama Tsabar. This exhibition marks the artist’s second solo show with the gallery, on view from February 15 through March 25, 2023.
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Tsabar’s practice fuses elements from sculpture, music, performance and architecture. Collaborating with local communities of female identifying and gender non-conforming performers, Tsabar writes a new feminist and queer history of mastery. Her interactive works expose hidden spaces and systems, reconceive gendered narratives, and shift the passive viewing experience to one of active participation. The artist draws attention to the muted and unseen by propagating sound through space and sculptural form. Resting someplace between sculpture and instrument, form and sound, Tsabar’s work lingers on the intimate, sensual, and corporeal potentials within these transitional states.
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Naama TsabarMelody of Certain Damage #15, 2022Broken electric guitar, strings, microphone, screws and amplifier67 3/4 x 60 x 3 in (with plinth)
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Tsabar’s Melody of Certain Damage series subverts the hypermasculine, destructive and cathartic action of smashing a guitar on stage by re-thinking the broken pieces back into a functioning object, bringing the sculptural into the realm of the aural and tactile.
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Naama TsabarMelody of Certain Damage #15, 2022Broken electric guitar, strings, microphone, screws and amplifier67 3/4 x 60 x 3 in (with plinth)
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Perimeters performance, 2021, The Bass museum, Miami Beach, FL. Composed in collaboration with Gabriela Burdsall, Ale Campos, Fielded, Lee Muze, Robbi Robsta, Gabrielle Sheerer, Sarah Strauss and Naama Tsabar. Courtesy of the artist and The Bass museum. Photo: Michael Del Riego.
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Naama TsabarMelody of Certain Damage #21, 2022Broken electric guitar, strings, microphone, screws and amplifier93 1/2 x 55 1/2 x 3 in (with plinth)
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In her newest works from the ongoing Gaffer series, instrument cables travel through fields made from layering numerous strips of tape, the same material used to mask and stabilize cables in performance spaces.
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Naama TsabarSuspension (Arches #1), 2023Gaffer tape, audio cable and connectors, aluminum, CA glue, archival PVA glue.
Gaffering: Patrick Busby, Naama Tsabar.With cable drops: 48 x 33 1/4 x 3/4 in (not including length of cable)
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Naama TsabarEncore, 2007Mixed media with gaffers tape and chains,12.9 x 9.9 x 6.8 ft
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Naama TsabarSuspension (Corner #1), 2023Gaffer tape, audio cable and connectors, aluminum, CA glue, archival PVA glue.
Gaffering: Patrick Busby, Galit Silver, Naama Tsabar.With cable drops: 25 5/8 x 26 1/2 x 3/4 in (not including length of the cables)
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Naama TsabarTwilight (Gaffer Wall), 2006-ongoingGaffer tapeWall-specific installation
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Within the exhibition, works from each series are not only united by their concept, at times they also become physically linked. Audio cables transmit sound from the broken guitars in Melody of Certain Damage, move through the physical plane of the Gaffer works, and ultimately connect to a live amplifier that emits sound throughout the gallery. With this gesture, Tsabar activates each artwork and the gallery itself, turning the viewer, artwork, and architecture into active collaborators.
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Naama TsabarMelody of Certain Damage #21, 2022Broken electric guitar, strings, microphone, screws and amplifier93 1/2 x 55 1/2 x 3 in (with plinth)
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Tsabar’s work has been featured in publications including Artforum, Art In America, ArtReview, ARTnews, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Frieze, Bomb Magazine, Art Asia Pacific, Wire, and Whitewall, among others. Tsabar is a two-time recipient of an Artis Grant, 2014 and 2010; a two-time recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant, 2009 and 2005; the 2009-2010 recipient of the Joan Sovern Award from Columbia University; 2012 Grantee of The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award; and held residency in 2012 at The Fountainhead Residency in Miami.
Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A4 Arts Foundation, Centre Pompidou, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, Pérez Art Museum Miami, The Bass Museum, Kadist Collection, Jimenez-Colón Collection, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel Museum, and Coleccion Dieresis.
Opening in October 2023, Tsabar will be featured in a solo exhibition at Berlin’s Hamburger Banhof National Gallery of Contemporary Art.
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Naama Tsabar: Breaks and Suspensions
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