NY Art Book Fair: Tamar Ettun / Lilit

NY Art Book Fair: Tamar Ettun / Lilit

Lilit is an ongoing project and new installation by artist Tamar Ettun, presented in collaboration with Printed Matter and Dreamsong. In the 2nd to 7th centuries in Babylon, artist-healers created spells, drawings, and talismanic objects to trap demons like Lilit, an aerial spirit demon with Sumerian, Akkadian, and Judaic roots who was villainized as a dangerously sexual female entity. Revived by Ettun as an empathic demon, Lilit returns with a summon. Read her words as you climb the staircase, look out for her many faces as you ascend and find Lilit on the rooftop in the form of a monumental, breathing umbilical cord. The launch of a new risograph print and an artist book will accompany this project, both available at Printed Matter’s booth (P1).