1. When Bulldozer כשדחפור
2. Blotted Out Hooligans חוליגנים מחוקים
3. Maminka מאמינקה
4. Hebron - Gola-Goola חברון - גולה-גלה
5. Stone אבן
6. Lady of Kinnereth הגברת מכנרת
7. Star כוכב
1997 - ORIEL 31, Newtown Wales, Feb.15 FIT TO STAND THE GAZE OF MILLIONS
room installation
Curators: Elaine Marshall, Michael Nixon
1997 - U.W.I.C Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff, Ap. FIT TO STAND THE GAZE OF MILLIONS, version 2 room installation
Curator: Walt Warrilow.
1997 - ORIEL 31, Newtown Wales, Feb.15 FIT TO STAND THE GAZE OF MILLIONS
room installation
Curators: Elaine Marshall, Michael Nixon
1997 - U.W.I.C Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff, Ap. FIT TO STAND THE GAZE OF MILLIONS, version 2 room installation
Curator: Walt Warrilow.
1997 - ORIEL 31, Newtown Wales, Feb.15 FIT TO STAND THE GAZE OF MILLIONS
room installation
Curators: Elaine Marshall, Michael Nixon
1997 - U.W.I.C Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff, Ap. FIT TO STAND THE GAZE OF MILLIONS, version 2 room installation
Curator: Walt Warrilow.
1997 - ORIEL 31, Newtown Wales, Feb.15 FIT TO STAND THE GAZE OF MILLIONS
room installation
Curators: Elaine Marshall, Michael Nixon
1997 - U.W.I.C Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff, Ap. FIT TO STAND THE GAZE OF MILLIONS, version 2 room installation
Curator: Walt Warrilow.
1997 - ORIEL 31, Newtown Wales, Feb.15 FIT TO STAND THE GAZE OF MILLIONS
room installation
Curators: Elaine Marshall, Michael Nixon
1997 - U.W.I.C Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff, Ap. FIT TO STAND THE GAZE OF MILLIONS, version 2 room installation
Curator: Walt Warrilow.
1997 - ORIEL 31, Newtown Wales, Feb.15 FIT TO STAND THE GAZE OF MILLIONS
room installation
Curators: Elaine Marshall, Michael Nixon
1997 - U.W.I.C Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff, Ap. FIT TO STAND THE GAZE OF MILLIONS, version 2 room installation
Curator: Walt Warrilow.
Perhaps it is no coincidence that the horse's tail is also used for making paintbrushes Avi Lubin, October 2017
Imagination is the pilgrim on the earth and its home is in heaven: Tamar Getter's Grotesques by H.S.L.R. 2001
Caught Between Utopias Getter on architect Bickels, The Museum of Art, EIN HAROD 1998
Tamar Getter
Fear and Might | 00:21:56
Tamar Getter, October 2018
seven stories:
1. LION
2. HARE AND ACORN
3. August Sander, Victim of Persecution
4. THE EAGLE AND THE SNAKE
5. AURORA
6. ISAAC AND THE COSSACKS
7. GRANDPA
all titles on screen:
1. Fear and Might
2. To anonymous woman, a victim of persecution 1938
To Isaac Babel 1940
To Ahed Tamimi 2018
3. Tamar Getter 2018
4. 1. LION
5. The paws - each claw, a truncated turret
6. The skin
7. Its wrinkles
8. The muscles and the bones are seen through
9. The fat, the hair
10. He squats, plainly, every part of his body - full - in sight
11. A formidable cat
12. Yet, not this causes my pupils to contract
13. It is panic, apart, of his presence
14. growing the pupils smaller and smaller
15. He – he is all watch and ambush
16. But that too is not the thing
17. It is the loom: my pupils so hard by his
18. That's the thing
19. When his black twin rhombi transfix my black balls
20. His eyelids fixed up on _ _ my own - drop-off
21. me, along with--
22. ... into the blackout behind
23. where bodiless and boundless, he expanses in me
24. My eyes are lion-loaded
25. 2. HARE AND ACORN
26. I saw her
27. from the end of my days
28. Her two front teeth were very brown
29. Her claws too were brown
30. The brown acorn, rotten-brown inside too,
31. was pinched between her teeth and claws
32. The teeth, claws, and acorn were hardly distinct
33. They all shined as if polished, and shivered in terrible speed
34. The fluffy fur shivered with it. It was brown, all of it
35. August Sander 3.
36. Victim of Persecution, ca, 1938
Gelatin silver Print
25 x 17 cm.
Edition of 12
37. Like most women, even if never schooled or skilled facing the cameras
38. she can, during the idle shooting time, fully stop her brain-work
39. like a cobra facing fakir, or like a fakir facing a cobra
40. In these happy moments free of thought
41. she shocks the entire worn-out machinery
42. A mighty heart rises _ _ bitter
43. It knows its fleeting might
44. She would not scold a soul, never slander, never denounce, never curse
45. If she were to ride, her seat was a horse
46. A beautiful horse
47. an English-Arabic Horse, once a Circus-Horse, perhaps…
48. and she, as chief-jockey, was red-skinned
49. …her glorious mustache – white
50. 4. THE EAGLE AND THE SNAKE
51. Soaring to heights with his prey, he got bitten
52. Tail-spinning, he crashed hitting the ground with a bang
53. 5. AURORA
54. While the serpent was plotting to swallow the eagle
55. The doe screeched as she was crouching in labor
56. Her womb was too narrow and blocked
57. The vulva too was locked
58. A passing dragon-snake bit her
59. Once the vulva relaxed – she delivered!
60. A moment too early, or one too late
61. The vulva would have shut, the fawn would have been dead, and the doe too, dead
62. She is Aurora
63. 6. ISAAC AND THE COSSACKS
64. Great joy tonight
65. From the end of my days
66. Had there been no hares infesting my drawers
67. Had the eagle heart not been exalted
68. Had the heart of Sander's girl been not downcast forever
69. Had the fawn been not bitten into life
70. how'd I… what now, do I remember?
71. No, the Babel story I cannot recall
72. But the feel… the effort… what's it to win the Cossacks' heart
73. and the price
74. to murder for sport
75. to slaughter a goose with bare hands
76. to seem just like one of the guys
77. sport was the small part of it, the short…
78. slaughtering, that is…
79. horrendous as much as it was
80. but what's to spare with sports?
81. the effort to be sportive - - -
82. before and after
83. this was nasty
84. It implied that Cossacks were not murdering sportily
85. They murder
86. and then, sing and dance
87. Fat chance for Isaac to have succeeded
88. "Blind Cow" was THE favorite game
89. of Isaac's jailers
90. to ease off the real tortures
91. But his eyes remained clear
92. and his mouth corners -
93. - a kiss
94. When asked for his last request before being executed
95. he said: Let me finish my work
96. Over rivers of blood
97. and mountains of corpses
98. Commander Semyon Budyonny raised up - up - up
99. and became a star
100. 7. GRANDPA
101. Yoram Gozansky sings the first two stanzas of the Bank"i version
102. At the foot of my grandpa's hanged body,
103. I leaf through my urine-stained Babel book
104. …the fields, the heavens, the sun, the moon, the clouds, and the atrocities
105. "My First Goose" - - soiled… how very much did Babel want...
106. ...wanted - - with the good guys - - who all failed
107. - - and massacred many - -
108. My grandpa too - - - wanted -
109. Had we not drown already in the erotics of destruction – we shall have been
110. If there had been no lion to have loaded my eyes with
111. If there had been no hares to have dominated my desk
112. Had sander's girl not been silent
113. Had the eagle not lifted his dinner to the heights – and crashed
114. Had the dragon not delivered a fawn
115. Had the dawn not raised always
116. Could I see the vast view?
117. "Such as the one cast at the floors of my eyes,
like a gorgeous pile of waste - - -"