Sigalite Landau: Salt Years

Salt: an essential nutrient

Salt: a preservative
Salt: a human taste
Salt: sweat - tears

"For me, looking at the Dead Sea and working in Sodom is an ongoing journey rooted in my childhood memories and a healing ritual. The disorientation it brings has become a way of life: every time I turn my face to it, I realize that Sodom has jumped from the past to the future, from south to north - and turn to it again. Understanding is my starting point as well as my turning point; repentance, back and forth, endlessly longing, memories of to unveil my mother and family on the shore."

"Lot's wife's transformation into salt denies her the ability to escape. At the same time, it allows her to freeze in solidarity. Her salty, liquid emotions—sweat and tears—become white sediment, testament to unexpressed insights and feelings." - Sigalit Landau

Edited by Sigalit Landau. With texts by David Goss, Rona Cohen, Amitai Mendelsohn, Eli Raz, Dalia Manor, Tal Sterngast, Luna Goldberg, Sigalit Landau and Thorsten Sadowsky

Hardcover, 400 pages, 198 illustrations
Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin, 2019
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-7757-4623-6
Available in the Museum der Moderne Salzburg with a German supplement

English-language catalog for the Sigalit Landau exhibition. Salt Years at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, 2019

Salt: essential nutrients

Salt: conservative
Salt: human button
Salt: sweat and tears

"For me, gazing at the Dead Sea and working at Sodom is a continuous journey that is rooted in my childhood; it is also a healing ritual. The disorientation that these entails has become a way of life for me. Every time I turn, I find that Sodom has leapt from the past to the present, from east to west―and then I (re)turn to it once again to unveil memories of my family on the shore."

"The transformation of Lot's wife into salt denies her the ability to escape. At the same time, it allows her to solidify into solidarity. Her salty, liquid emotions―sweat and tears―turn into eternal sediment, bearing testimony to unexpressed knowledge and feelings ." - Sigalite Landau

Sigalit Landau (Ed.). With texts by David Goss, Rona Cohen, Amitai Mendelsohn, Eli Raz, Dalia Manor, Tal Sterngast, Luna Goldberg, Sigalit Landau and Thorsten Sadowsky
Hardcover, 400 pages, 198 pictures
Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin, 2019
ISBN 978-3-7757-4623-6

Book to the exhibition Sigalit Landau. Salt Years at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, 2019