Satabdi Hati was born in India. Itinerancy is her way of life, and the four years she spent in Marseille were a parenthesis, ending for a new beginning.

Her visual work is based on uprootedness, isolation and not belonging, but also on welcoming possibilities and unexpected connections that give her a renewed impetus to create. Between discord and fervor, nature, the forest, the very symbols of her roots. She plays on the deep relationship between memory and introspection, between movement and balance, that binds her to nature. The rustle of foliage, the ripple of grasses in the wind, the shape of trees and their bold presence, are all suggested in these papers by line and representation. Her aim is to create the sensation of being in the heart of a forest, blurring the boundaries between the real and the unreal. Black, often dominant, is the mark of depth and complexity, as well as solitude and nostalgia.

She works with natural handmade papers, such as Nepalese paper, to stay close to nature and materialize once again the physical and psychic links that unite us to it. These different connections and their resonances enable her to establish a stable bond, and to feel within herself the vibration of <<being in the world>>.

Piera  SAFRIOUINE

Directer & Curator

Urban Gallery, Marseille, FRANCE.