Naama Tsabar

It is the show behind the curtain that fascinates me: the floor mats, gaffers tape,  alcohol, bed sheets. Playing in a band performing in small crowded venues and bar tending. I have experienced these venues at their extremes and from both sides. In my art I go back to such experiences to investigate the inert structures and tools that support emotionally charged spaces. I employ trigers such as smells, sounds and materials to evoke and unleash a twilight zone thats between personal and public memory. With in this zone I explore overwhelming states of invasion, transgression and deviation, as in Untitled where hundreds of bar floor mats formed an industrial earth work, or in Encore where the stabling action of the gaffers tape has gone to far and cocooned the stage. These structures embody liminal states characterized by the tension between the visible dimension of excess and the material's powerfully internal order.