“Annabel Daou’s work occurs at the intersection of writing, speech, and non-verbal modes of communication. Her plastic/paper and tape-based constructions, sound pieces, and performances explore the language of power, intimacy, and self-encounter. Daou reconfigures the surfaces of her works through processes of destruction and repair. Mending tape transcribed with language alternately holds together and pulls apart the various materials. The phrases in Daou’s work are drawn from personal, literary, and historical sources. She uses repetition and subtle shifts in the iteration of idioms and ordinary speech as a means for investigating shared experience and misunderstanding…”