(original)...: Michal_samama_-_background_materials

The performance often moves through non-traditional spaces, such as lobbies, elevator shafts, and basements, treating the venue itself as a "background material" to be excavated.

Samama often morphs into the materials she uses. For example, she may use her fingers like "fishhooks" to distort her face into a snout, blurring the line between human and animal/object. michal_samama_-_background_materials (Original)...

Focuses on the plastic bag as a "transparent carrier of waste." It investigates materials that are rarely objects of direct reflection. such as lobbies