Laila, February 23 2014, 2014 gaffers tape, muslin, epoxy 8.2 x 13'
Cave Of Swimmers, November 7 2013, 2013 gaffer tape, muslin, epoxy 9 x 9.5'
Studio Practice, October 24 2013, 2013, gaffers tape, muslin, epoxy 8.7 x 9'
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For the Reliefs body of work, Tsabar collaborates with different bands to create a series of Performance Reliefs. The artist goes on stage when the band's show ends and gaffers the cable arrangements to the surface of the stage. She then pulls the thin gaffer tape skin off the stage by way of imprinting the stage surface and cable composition, as if it were a mold of time. The title of each work is the name of the band and the date they performed. The size of the work and composition of cables are predetermined by the the size of the stage and the band’s setup.
Study For a Microphone (Variation 4), 2014 gaffers tape, muslin, epoxy 105 x 53.5"
Study For a Microphone (Variation 8), 2014 gaffers tape, muslin, epoxy 48.125 x 95.75''
Study For Instrument Cable (Variation 1), 2014 gaffers tape, muslin, epoxy 24 x 95''
Study For A Microphone (Variation 6), 2014 gaffers tape, muslin, epoxy 48.5 x 96''
Study For Microphone – Duet (Variation 1), 2014 gaffers tape, muslin, epoxy 94 9/10 x 45 4/5"
Study For a Microphone (Variation 3), 2014 gaffers tape, muslin, epoxy 82 x 53''
Encore, 2007 mixed media with gaffers tape and chains 12.9 x 9.9 x 6.8'
Encore, 2007
Encore, 2007 detail view
Encore, 2007 detail view
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Encore presented a full stage, complete with a drum set, a guitar, loudspeakers and amplifiers, wrapped entirely in black gaffer tape—a "backstage" material associated with the labor part of the show behind the scenes—and suspended by metal chains above the floor. The presence of the musical instruments and stage props in the work is clear and manifest, but the ability to use them is blocked. The surplus of black, isolating and sealing material is all-encompassing, generating a hovering object, at once familiar and threatening, tangible and elusive. It is a striking and suffocated, representative and dark object which subverts the ability to contain it within a given frame of meaning; an object which, ultimately, remains impenetrable to the gaze. (from a text by Hadas Maor)
*Past exhibits include Casino Luxembourg, Dvir Gallery, Art Statements, Art Basel 38
*Images courtesy of The Collection of The Israel Museum of Art.
Morning Face, 2008 mixed media with gaffers tape on preexisting light fixture 16.4 x 13.1'
Morning Face, 2008 detail view
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In Morning Face, a gaffers tape veil was placed on a preexisting fluorescent lighting fixture in the gallery space. The veil obstructed the fluorescent light, while reflecting it into an inner tunnel like space underneath it.
*As part of the exhibition A New Way of Seeing, Städtische Galerie, Bremen
Twilight (Gaffer Wall), 2017 gaffer tape on wall 9.8 x 29.5' Installation view at The Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium.
Twilight (Gaffer Wall), 2017 Installation view at The Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium.
Twilight (Gaffer Wall), 2021 Installation view at the Bass Museum, Miami.
Twilight (Gaffer Wall), 2021 Installation view at Hamburger Bahnhof, Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin.
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Twilight (Gaffer Wall) (2007/2024) is a site-specific installation, first presented in 2007. In it, a monumental, curved wall covered in painstakingly applied, vertical strips of black gaffer tape. Gaffer tape – a material that is used, among other things, to secure cables at concerts – here transcends its functional role of concealing and stabilizing something on the floor and moves up the wall, where its shimmering black materiality leads into the exhibition like a curtain at the entrance to a nightclub or other nocturnal event.