Naama Tsabar: ‘Shoes are kind of an underdog’

Visitors to the Bass Museum this winter can sit on the gallery floor strumming guitars or singing into its walls, all the while keeping to the beat of a metronome fused to a pair of worn-out shoes. These interactive, sculptural and sonic interventions by the Israel-born, New York-based conceptual artist Naama Tsabar are a continuation of her distinctive approach to institutional critique.

 

The artist is always seeking new ways to heighten awareness and curiosity in viewers so they begin to sense forces they would not normally perceive. By cutting into gallery walls and equipping them with sensors, microphones, strings and speakers, she upends the typical functioning of the white cube as a space for passive visual contemplation. For the artist, such interventions push at and expand the boundaries of how a work of art—and an art space—should function.

 

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