Art Unsettled 03.14.2008

You get two feelings experiencing Tabaimo’s graphic, wood block style images and animations. One is their gut-level creepiness: her obsessively detailed, distorted perspectives of banal commuter trains, body care, and public restrooms. Then you see the visual lyricism and Tabaimo’s quiet sympathy for her self-alienated subjects. It’s unsettling, but fascinating and oddly tender.
Opening today in New York, Tabaimo’s gone and made the experience of her work even eerier and more seductive. The floor-to-ceiling images and an interactive, raked floor implicate you in the images’ narrative bubble world. You’re still a voyeur, but in this show you feel it.
Get inside the bubble here
