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Inversion #4

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Naama Tsabar
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Acquired in 2025
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Inversion #4 is a work embedded into the space in which it is presented, transforming it into a resonant threshold—one that is both sculptural and sonic at the same time. Here, Tsabar cuts deep apertures into the wall, revealing a living interior of sound rather than emptiness. As visitors reach into these openings, their movements activate a layered composition of field recordings: the electric pulse of cicadas and the voices of female vocalists, mixed together into a textured soundscape. Visitors modulate pitch and volume through their movement in space, becoming both audience and performer. In this way, Inversion #4 collapses distinctions between interior and exterior, structure and body, listening and touch.

The work was acquired by Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, 2025.

Naama Tsabar, Inversion #4, 2021, voice of Wolf Weston, sound of BroodX cicadas, wood, varnish, paint, infra-red sensors, Arduino, WAV trigger, wires, cable port, cables, purfling, 96 x 62 x 16 1/2 inches.

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