Stills from Shuli Sadé’s video project Running in Cycles document journeys from her studio to various destinations outside of the city and the return. The cyclical nature of going-and-coming creates the philosophical platform for this visual investigation.

Traveling by public transportations and taxicabs, Sade chooses in advance the path and the length of her journeys, traveling each time by different bridges or tunnels to cross the river, but without any formal destination. Thus, the journey is about departure and return, and the space and time in between. The particulated and digitalized aspects of the video stills, in her mind, captures the evanescent quality of time in broken moments strung together by one’s memory of the past (the leaving) and anticipation of the future (the return). Time, then, is made visible, frame-by-frame.

Jonathan Goodman, a New York-based art critic, comments: “That it works so well as poetry only underscores…that we move across time as if we owned it, but which in fact possesses us in entirety. Sade’s art functions as a lyric reminder of our precarious journey and its transformation into an experience unified by an open sense of self.”