Joy in Repetition

Satt transformed the museum’s circular ground floor into a home-like space, bringing times, figures, places, eras, and styles together under one roof. With remarkable fluidity, lightness, and ease that are almost imperceptible, Satt moves between the celestial realms of myth, dream, and fiction and the terrestrial realms of everyday life, home, and family. She mends fractures, builds bridges, and creates worlds, thereby allowing for a renewed, alternative, circular perspective on things, far removed from conventional categories and viewpoints.

Satt’s photographic language is concentrated, dense, and rich, and is often characterized by a certain flatness. Her photographic practice involves long-term processes. She “collects” images, working primarily with analog photography, usually images she takes with a 35 mm camera, and occasionally images appropriated from her childhood family album. She gathers thoughts and historical or literary sources that captivate her, and from them structures of the works emerge. At the preliminary stage, she creates an “image repository,” from which she assembles an index of selected images. She then scans, processes, and deconstructs them before digitally splicing and welding them together into a multidimensional photographic assemblage.

In her own words: “[The photographs…] call attention to the physical properties of photographic materials, so the complete work often contains both figurative and sculptural qualities.”

Satt’s works convey a sense of dense, formidable force, threatening to erupt through the delicate fabric. They hold potential for accident and destruction, but also a powerful potential for passion, life and growth.

Her work exists in the eternal interval between the eruptive life instinct and the imposing, magnetic force of death, with no opposition or contradiction between the two. The possibility of the beginning is also the possibility of the end.

Satt is the second recipient of the Israel Makov Award in memory of Nira, his wife, at the Ashdod Art Museum. The award, granted biennially by Mr. Israel Makov, is intended to support an artist’s first solo museum exhibition and produce an accompanying catalogue.