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Work by Tamar Nissim: white room installation with a small table of glass bottles and a pitcher, framed prints, a shelf, and a white nurse's uniform on the wall.
Work by Tamar Nissim: dark gallery with a projected black-and-white portrait of a woman in a nurse's cap on the wall, and a lit room beyond.
Work by Tamar Nissim: gallery with a long strip of small portrait photographs and white text on the far wall, framed pictures at the sides, and a reflective floor.
Work by Tamar Nissim: overhead view of a white enamel basin with blue water and a wooden scrub brush, on crumpled white lace cloth.
Work by Tamar Nissim: three women in white nurse uniforms and caps pour liquid from metal pitchers into rows of glass flasks.
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Tamar Nissim artistic practice diverse in the fields of video, photography, performance, and working within communities. It reflects her interest as multi-disciplinary artist in women's personal and collective memories, and their ethic perspective. Nissim's artistic process is based on historical research that combines academic and archival research; interviews; personal texts; manuscripts; drawings; historical photography; and periodical films. The visual and textual research methods are a starting point for video, installation and performance works that amplify the voices of women that opposed the dominant ideology of their time. In her artwork she reveals the methods used by the hegemony, to dominate women, and persuade them to be agents of the dominated ideology within the domestic and public sphere.

Tamar Nissim, an Israeli multidisciplinary artist,Awarded The Israeli Minister of Culture and Sports Award for the Arts (2019). exhibits in museums, galleries, nonprofit institutions, video screens and film festivals, as: Tel Aviv Museum, Israel (2011); The Jerusalem Film Festival (2011, 2021,2023); Guimaraes Biennial, Portugal (2012); Museum Bat Yam, Israel (2012, 2017); Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania (2013); Indie-Collective Gallery, Israel (2015, 2018, 2021); HaMiskan, Ein Harod (2017); Kniznick Gallery-HBI, Waltham USA (2022); Brunei Gallery, London (2022); Haifa Museum (2017,2023), est. Graduated: "The Advanced Artist Program" and "M.Ed. in Art Education", Hamidrasha, Israel (2012); BA with Honor, Shankar college (1987); Honored: Honorable mention at the Guimaraes Triennial, Portugal (2012). Ha’ Pais Council for the Culture and Arts grant (2018, 2022); Artis Grant (2023).

Tamar Nissim's residency at NARS is made possible by the generous support of artis.

Artis logo: the organization's name in bold black Hebrew and Arabic lettering above the word artis in lowercase.

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