Thinking in Time

SHULI SADÉ EXHIBITION OPENS AT REEVES CONTEMPORARY

OCTOBER 10th - NOVEMBER 8th

Artist's Reception Friday October 10th 6:00 - 8:00 pm


Videoshooting a trip across the Brooklyn Bridge might capture motion, but it
inadequately conveys the caprices of time and memory that fascinate Shuli
Sadé. Her work Dureé superficially documents such a trip, but transforms the
filmic qualities into visually stunning meditations on the velocity of
experience. An arresting arrangement of one hundred and twenty lit video
stills, mounted onto units of square-foot Duraclear, Dureé refracts scenes
from the bridge into a two-fold array of high-contrast positive and negative
images. Illuminated from below, the piece highlights the blurred
demarcations of night/ day, familiar/ unfamiliar, remembered/ invented.

By their nature, video stills suggest the infinite contained in bounded
journeys, in which innumerable instants define perceptions of space and
"duration." Sadé's imprecise yet impeccable images of urban landmarks expose
how subjectivity prevails over linear time.

Sadé's video piece, Thinking in Time, re-instates movement in her thesis.
Seven video screens play manipulations of the same scene, shot every night
through the same window for two consecutive summers. In this installation,
she employs her signature color-coding language: green for the future, sepia
for the past, and blue for, as she puts it, "an in-between," or the
perceived present. Along with projected sound, Thinking in Time's screens
allow the viewer further entrée into Sadé's determined representation of the
facets of experience well beyond our usual vocabularies. Through Dureé's
elegance and magnitude and Thinking in Time's sensory expansiveness, the
physical presence of Sadé's vision makes manifest its conceptual
foundations.

Shuli Sadé was previously known for documenting industrial ruins and
architectural sites throughout the world. In the past decade she works with
video combined with her photographic images, arresting time in search for
metaphors for the cycle of life. Sadé received her B.F.A. in 1976 from
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. She continued her art
studies in New York at the School of Visual Arts. A recipient of the
National Endowment for the Arts visual arts fellowship, her recent solo
shows have appeared at Amelie A. Wallace Gallery in SUNY Old Westbury
(2008), the Hungarian Cultural Center, New York (2006), Reeves Contemporary
Gallery New York (2006), Kolok Gallery, in North Adams, MA (2006), and two
group shows at Mead Museum, Amherst, MA (2003, 2007). Sadé's work is
included in numerous corporate and private collections.

Reeves Contemporary is located at 535 West 24th Street, second floor.
Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 10 - 6 p.m. or by appointment. For
more information, call 212 714 0044 or view the online gallery at
reevescontemporary.com .