NYAB Event - Tamy Ben-Tor & Miki Carmi "Disembodied Archetypes"

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At Zach Feuer Gallery
Media: Painting, Photography, Video installation

Zach Feuer Gallery, in conjunction with Stefan Stux Gallery and Salon 94, presents Disembodied Archetypes, a two-person exhibition of new performances and videos by Tamy Ben-Tor and new paintings and photographs taken by Miki Carmi. All of the works in this exhibition are bound by a series of photographs and texts that embody the dialectic of the archetypical and the concrete.
The artists state: “Disembodied archetypes deals with the performance of the poet as a monotonous daily routine of useless acts for the purpose of creating a kind of ‘primitive theater,’ or a ‘one man theater,’ that
endlessly strives to deny death by the intensity of action.
Neither the grotesque proportions of these heads nor the idiotic manner of these performances imitate life.
Rather they aim to imitate the dynamic of thought. The mind’s conception of reality, like a warped mirror in a circus booth, could reflect, as in these works, an irrational, absurd reality and yet a true one in that it is how the mind perceives.
It is through irrationality that the senses grasp truth and it is the role of the artist to make a true image - one which is not literal or descriptive but real. Perhaps the image of the mask best describes the theatre and the painting in that through it the unreal becomes fact and the banal divine.

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