UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
We believe everyone deserves access to art that challenges our understanding of the present and inspires us to create a future that makes space for us all.
MessageThe Emotional Show
- August 28, 2023 - March 16, 2024
- Exhibition
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- Artwork
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- Artists
Tamar Ettun
"Yellow Inflatable" 2016
Parachute fabric, thread, velcro, inflator
Courtesy the artist
Tamar Ettun uses performance and sculpture to reflect on the contrasts of life and death, trauma and healing, movement and stillness. The inflatable artwork on view in The Emotional Show was created for the second phase of a multi-year project she devised in collaboration with her New York performance collective, The Moving Company. Each stage of the project was dedicated to a different emotion-signifying color. In this context yellow represents desire, an emotion with the power to drive action and keep away death.
(DKS)