TAMY BEN-TOR  

January 24 - March 7, 2009

For her first solo show in Luxemburg, Tamy Ben-Tor will feature 4 new video works. IZAAK 2008, GEWAL(D) 2007, BABY EICHMANN 2008, NORMAL 2006 Ben-Tor states: ‘My characters are embodiments of non-existing entities. Sometimes they mirror my mind’s demons and sometimes I watch them unfold before me. I find it necessary to escape into another universe in which I am not myself and language isn’t used to deliver information. Nationalities and races are embodied in language and people’s identities are revealed through speech. The characters I portray are not real. However they are specific. I don’t speak about politics; I use them to invoke feeling just as I speak in different languages in order to reach a nonsensical outcome. This is because it is only through the specific and descriptive that a tension with the abstract can be formed.

Tamy Ben-Tor was born in Israel and currently lives and works in New York City. She has had solo shows at Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Cubit, London; and Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur and has participated in group exhibitions at the Mori Museum, Tokyo, MoCa, Los Angeles; Reina Sofia, Madrid; PERFORMA 05 and PERFORMA 07 Biennials, New York, ‘Videocracy, the Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Manifesta 7, Trentino Alto Adige, Biennial Sidney, Sidney, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne.