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Tamy Ben-Tor & Miki Carmi’s Disembodied Archetypes at Zach Feuer Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Zach Feuer Gallery, in conjunction with Stefan Stux Gallery and Salon 94, present Disembodied Archetypes, a two-person exhibition of new performances and videos by Tamy Ben-Tor and new paintings and photographs taken by Miki Carmi. All of the works in this exhibition are bound by a series of photographs and texts that embody the dialectic of the archetypical and the concrete. The artists state: “Disembodied archetypes deals with the performance of the poet as a monotonous daily routine of useless acts for the purpose of creating a kind of ‘primitive theater,’ or a ‘one man theater,’ that endlessly strives to deny death by the intensity of action. Neither the grotesque proportions of these heads nor the idiotic manner of these performances imitate life. Rather they aim to imitate the dynamic of thought. The mind’s conception of reality, like a warped mirror in a circus booth, could r