Untitled #1 (from the Double Face Museum Series)
dye sublimation print, polished aluminum frame
41 x 51 “

  • In Untitled (Double Face) two guitars are joint to form one instrument that has no back. The act of multiplying serves almost as a handicap, one that imposes new movement and sound. It now takes two people to activate this musical instrument. When played, the sculpture imposes a hyper intimate relationship upon the musicians, facing one another,  and holding the guitar between them. Every movement is felt and heard, with their backs to the crowd.

Untitled #2 (from the Double Face Museum Series)

Untitled (Double Face), as part part of the exhibition program “Before Tomorrow”, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, 2023. Performers: Kristin Mueller and Naama Tsabar.

Untitled (Double Face) Is a work by Naama Tsabar exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum as part of the exhibition Blood Makes Noise, curated by Nat Trotman. Performers: Kristin Mueller and Naama Tsabar

DOUBLESILVERBURST, 2010
mixed media with two guitars
14'' x 71” x 12'

  • In ‘Doublesilverburst’, Tsabar fused a left handed and a right handed guitar together at the head (headstock) to create a single instrument. The two guitars now share a single set of guitar tuners, when one guitar is tuned the other goes out of tune. The two-person guitar negates the possibility of a “front man,” instead creating a scenario in which the creation of music is necessarily a collaborative effort, and disallows many of the characteristic wild gestures and poses of the rock star on stage. 

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