Hadas Satt // הדס סט

https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/art/MAGAZINE-1.8642478

Motel, Hadas Satt’s new solo exhibition, is a story which commences in Photography’s night.

In her current project Satt cross-cuts images captured in different cameras over the span of thirty years. All of the photographs relate in one way or another to journeys taken across foreign countries, focusing particularly on the American landscape. The artist uses the terrain of U.S national parks as the backdrop for a different kind of a journey, one that has more to do with the consciousness of travelers than with the physical plain traversed by them. 

Satt, who uses the traditional tools of analog photography to conjure her images, parts between an image’s time of conception and time of birth. This intrinsic gap allows her to blur the association of early and latter, cause and effect. As in her previous project (Unlikely Complicity, Sep-Nov 19. Curator: Maya Bamberger) the artist begins by pairing together photographic images whose frame-edge are sat in darkness, or, alternatively, in the absolute light of burned film.

Motel deals with different modes of movement. It’s a personal journey turned metaphorically universal that travels a landscape populated by animals, deserted old towns and monsters. 

Curator: Avshalom Suliman documentation of the space: Yuval Hai

 MOTEL, 2020, installation view

MOTEL(night), 2020, installation view, print on pedestal, 30x20x85 cm

Motel (sisters), 2020, installation view and details