Summonby Tamar Ettun

Mar 17 – Apr 29, 2023

*66 Drawings, Leaves, and a Stick*, 2023
Handmade and readymade pigment sticks, fabric, thread, on paper
Dimensions variable
Drawings are available individually
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*Fire Trap*, 2022
Ceramic, glaze and underglaze, long branch matches, silk thread
11.25 x 8.75 x 5.5 inches

*Evil Eye Trap*, 2021
Ceramic, glaze and underglaze
9.25 x 10 x 5.25 inches

*Yellow Watering Can Bird*, 2020
Ceramic, glaze and underglaze
9.25 x 10 x 3.5 inches

*Lilit*, 2022
Cast iron
Unique
28.5 x 19.25 x 2.5 inches

*Yellow Wave Cave*, 2023
Handy-dyed and stitched boat sails, with acrylic, rope, printed silk, hand-dyed silk with walnut, hibiscus and onion skins, headcovers, infant blanket
115 x 186 inches

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Press Release (pdf)

Dreamsong is pleased to present SUMMON, Brooklyn-based artist Tamar Ettun’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery.

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Ettun (b. Jerusalem, Israel, 1982) uses textile, drawings, sculpture, video and performance to examine somatic empathy, trauma-healing modalities, and ritual. Her recent work centers on Lilit, an aerial spirit demon with origins in Sumerian, Akkadian, and Judaic mythology. In the 2nd – 7th centuries, artist-healers created spells, drawings, and talismanic objects to trap demons like Lilit, who was characterized as a dangerously sexual female entity, and appeared frequently on incantation bowls used in protective rituals. Enthralled by the images inscribed on these ancient objects, Ettun began studying their vocabulary and eventually, developed her own language that revives these practices through a contemporary feminist lens, subverting Lilit’s misogynistic archetype and revamping her image as an Empathic Demon.

Artist(s)

Tamar Ettun