In her series "Night Watches," Hanna Sahar presents a selection of photographs of landscapes not identified as any specific place. She proposes a gaze that is aware of its own limitations in capturing reality. The artist addresses the empty spaces between the revealed and concealed landscape, between existence and absence, memory and oblivion.
Sahar's work refuses to endow territory with a mystical dimension. She chooses to create, in her photographs of Israeli locations – at Tivon or Ga'ash – an illusion of Exilic landscapes, seen by the Zionist Movement as a deviation from the nation's normal life. This choice affords a critical perspective on the mythology of rootedness in Israeli culture.
Born in Tel Aviv, 1966; lives and works in Tel Aviv