Summonby Tamar Ettun

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.