Naama Tsabar

Born in Rehovot, 1982
Lives and works in New York

In her most recent works, Naama Tsabar has gone back to working with sticky gaffer tape, which is used to fix electric wires to the stage floor. Her sculptural work begins the moment the performance ends: when the musical instruments are taken off the stage, Tsabar covers its entire surface with strips of gaffer tape, which she then peels off with the traces of the electric cords impressed upon it. The resulting black relief constitutes a sort of material memory of the performance, which attempts to preserve its immediacy before it is processed and assimilated into memory and into cultural and artistic hierarchies. The music, rhythm, movement, and energy of the performance are all contained within this peel, removed from the black stage.
The strips of black gaffer tape on display were removed from the stage at the Zimmer Club in Tel Aviv following one of the band's performances. Tsabar chose to offer a tribute to a new band whose members are younger than herself, thus inverting the power balance between different artistic generations and celebrating a form of creative youthfulness has yet to be fixed, catalogued, and defined within the cultural system.


Laila

Maya Perry, born in New York, 1994;
Avishag Cohen-Rodrigues, born in Kfar Saba, 1994;
Both live and work in Tel Aviv

A central axis in Naama Tsabar's work is the intersection of the two cultural fields in which she is an active producer - visual art and music. The work featured in this exhibition is a tribute to the band Laila, which has been active since November 2012, and whose members are the 19-yearold Maya Perry (drums and vocals) and Avishag Cohen- Rodrigues (guitar and background vocals). Perry and Cohen-Rodriguez founded their first band when they were 13 years old, and they have since played together in various ensembles.