Like any other artist Tanya Lieberman is a demonstrative personality. So what does she demonstrate? She demonstrates repression of her libido, and through that she purges repression. There is something paranoid in her, as she is a very purposeful person - with a somewhat male character - clearly structuring her life. Lieberman expresses this structurizing in a video of man's stereotypical gesture. Generally speaking a woman photographer is very special case itself. Leongard used the term "anankast", that means a mix between paranoia and psychastenia, when a person is purposeful and at the same time tries to set everything right. She's not a reporter, she's designing her pictures and then shoots them. But she's not only paranoid; I see there fixation of anxiety and restrictive behavior, diffidence, wavering. The gesture of doing one's hair reflects her own pendulum oscillations between this and that. Lieberman is anxious, and anxiety drives her work. In this exhibit anxiety is visualized in a "double accounting". One choice is an image of running water. Another choice is a stereotype. Water is untimely, while stereotype gestures (like neurotic doing one's hair) is a structuring of time, transition of anxiety into movement activity, and even into a rite. But this activity is nonproductive. Any stereotype gesture is a rite. A person is unconsciously trying to turn a free floating anxiety into a directed movement, to structurize it in time. That's what a fixation of anxiety and restrictive behavior is about. Visualizing of typically masculine gestures means that Tanya considers men as autoerotic subjects. Man strokes himself, and water falls down, and he can't come... There's no resolution. Hypothetical solution happens when Lieberman brings all the stuff into an exhibition space.

P. S. In XIX century there was one method of mental therapy. A mental patient was fixated and an intensive water spout was directed onto his head. Sound of falling water filled the brain, cleansing all the thoughts out, leaving no place for insane obsessions. Just sound of water, endless agony of water drip. Water both cures and cripples...