Artists

Artist Tamy Ben-Tor

Born 1975 in Jerusalem, Israel. Lives and works in New York City, USA.
  • Artist | Tamy Ben-TorTamy Ben-Tor, Gewald, 2007, installation view of video on display at the MCA for the 16th Biennale of Sydney 2008
    Courtesy the artist and Zach Feuer Gallery, New York
    Photograph: Jenni Carter

Tamy Ben-Tor is a video-maker and performer whose characters embody stereotypes from various cultures and circumstances. Ben-Tor says of the development of her characters: ‘Sometimes they mirror my mind’s demons, and sometimes I watch them unfold before me.’ Nationality and race are embedded in language, and a person’s identity is revealed through their speech. Ben-Tor’s performances draw on the image and language of her characters, which she takes to nonsensical extremes. In doing this, Ben-Tor makes their identity and politics bizarre, abstract and often comic; she brings them into ‘the domain of idiocy’. Gewald shows the artist in various guises that reflect the neurotic and almost pathological nature of their dogmas. Words flow out of her persona like a continuous eruption of energy and associations, a montage with constant shifts of tone and attitude.

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Tamy Ben-Tor
Normal, 2006
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Courtesy Zach Feuer Gallery, New York

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