Tree House

Nati Shamia-Opher / Tree House

Opening: 14/03/2008   Closing: 24/04/2008

Tree House, Installation view, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, 2008
Tree House, Installation view, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, 2008
Tree House, Installation view, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, 2008
Tree House, Installation view, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, 2008

Footprints of a figure

 

Traces of habitat

 

Nati Shamia Opher exhibits a complex installation. Its space might be an inside or a refined outside inhabited by different objects that merge between in and out, landscape and furniture, object and body.

 

An image of a dismantled tree with a tree house on its branches is spread unpicked on the gallery floor.

 

The tree parts are wrapped with felt, as though reunited; its joints are reconstructed by the hands of a specialist into a branched nervous system; its branches create a new weave that grows and takes over the gallery floor.

 

Near the tree a puddle carpet lies on the floor: its parts are a multiplied imitation of puddles that often appear on asphalt during winter. The carpet is a source of water – an imaginary infrastructure for a possible existence, for life.

 

The third object is a shadow of a mountain: a structure of light colored felt pockets stretching towards the ceiling like cells of a beehive – a potential layout for collecting and storage.

 

A possible place for being and, perhaps, for a safe existence of the body.

 

Nati Shamia Opher