Congratulations to Naama Tsabar on her solo exhibition. The installation is comprised of shattered guitars, sprawled on the floor, each restrung to create a collective of sculptures that renders the lower floor into a massive, room-sized instrument. Visitors can play this unique creation, as well as attend special performances by female-identified and gender non-conforming performers Rotem Frimer, Nina Loeterman, Maya Perry, Sarah Strauss and Moran Victoria Sabbag that will take place during the run of the exhibition.
Naama Tsabar creates sensually driven installations, performances, and sculptures that evoke questions of power and bravado found in musical and social environments. Her work investigates intimacy, performativity, sexuality, and excess with minimalist aesthetics. Throughout her practice, Tsabar repeatedly returns to the iconic act of breaking the guitar. To play the instruments-cum-installation, visitors must lay on the floor next to the pieces, or find other positions with which to interact with the work.
Such a choreography engenders a vulnerability within visitors or performers, generating a new kind of intimacy between the instrument and its activator. The image of the male rock star, able freely to express anger and rebellion, and to impose violence, has become almost paradigmatic today.
By maintaining the composition of the guitars as they originally fractured when broken, Tsabar focuses on the aftermath of the violence, the debris.
Transforming the remains, perhaps even the victims of violence, into a new and beautiful landscape is an empowering female act. For this reason, Tsabar chose to collaborate and empower musicians who identify as female and gender non-binary. She will work with them to compose a space-specific performance. Tickets are available on the CCA website. Visitors are also permitted to play the works through the run of the exhibition.
