

Barricade #3
2016
Barricade #3 presents twelve microphones and their stands arranged into a dense, interlocking physical structure that functions simultaneously as sculptural obstruction and latent sonic apparatus. Tsabar has configured the equipment, ordinarily associated with amplification and access, into a formation that refuses passage while retaining every component's capacity for activation. The piece measures an imposing 157.5 by 248.9 by 248.9 centimeters, commanding space in a manner that draws the body into confrontation with its mass before any consideration of its technological identity takes hold. Naama Tsabar works consistently at the intersection of performance, sound, and architecture, and Barricade #3 distills those concerns into a single charged object. The microphone stands, stripped of performers and audiences, accumulate into something architectural and adversarial, collapsing the boundary between instrument and infrastructure. The work asks whether a tool built for voice becomes something else entirely when multiplied, welded into obstruction, and denied its intended use, and that question carries a political undertone that is impossible to ignore given the title's explicit language. Signed by the artist and currently available through Spinello Projects, Barricade #3 represents a key moment in Tsabar's ongoing investigation into how spaces of performance can be transformed into spaces of resistance. For a collector, the work offers exceptional presence as a three-dimensional sculpture while housing the continuous conceptual tension between silence and sound, between the apparatus of communication and the architecture of refusal. Its scale and conceptual rigor make it a significant acquisition within any serious collection devoted to contemporary sculpture or sound-based practice.
- Medium
- 12 microphones and microphone stands and matching audio equipment
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Spinello Projects, Miami, FL
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Spinello ProjectsView on map
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