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Some Seeds Are Still Bitter

Alya Hatta
22.03. – 20.04.2024

Schöneberger Ufer 71
10785 Berlin
SETAREH is proud to present the German debut of London based artist Alya Hatta’s Some Seeds Are Still Bitter. In her paintings, playfully uncanny scenes weave together islands of anecdotes and memories. Both a means for locating herself in the present and a path for returning home, Hatta’s art moves through various temporalities. These diaristic images serve as a reflection of the self in times of loss and change, growth and dispersal.
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A Little Off Script, 2024

Oil, acrylic, charcoal, mixed media on canvas on mixed fabric
80 x 60 cm | 31 1/2 x 23 2/3  in

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Slowly and in circles, 2024

Oil, acrylic, charcoal, mixed media on canvas on mixed fabric
170 x 150 cm | 67 x 59  in

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Carpet Burns, 2024

Oil, acrylic, charcoal, mixed media on canvas on mixed fabric
120 x 90 cm | 47 1/4 x 35 1/2  in

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Our Gold Star, 2024

Oil, acrylic, charcoal, mixed media on canvas on mixed fabric
120 x 100 cm | 47 1/4 x 39 1/3  in

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Flat Seven, 2024

Oil, acrylic, charcoal, mixed media on canvas on mixed fabric
120 x 90 cm | 47 1/4 x 35 1/2  in

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In this recent body of work, Hatta surveys lived experience of diaspora, with her Southeast Asian heritage conflated with Eastern and Western influences. Concerned with ecology, both environmental and communal, Hatta engages modes of journeying, discovering and crafting to imagine a materialized paradise which she can call her own.
You Didn't Have to Hire a Bus, 2024

Oil, acrylic, charcoal, mixed media on canvas on mixed fabric
140 x 170 cm | 55 x 67  in

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Rinse Before You Jump, 2024

Oil, acrylic, charcoal, mixed media on canvas on mixed fabric
140 x 170 cm | 55 x 67 in

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And Then There Were Four, 2024

Oil, acrylic, charcoal, mixed media on canvas on mixed fabric
160 x 160 cm | 63 x 63  in

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The gathering of materials and textiles are the scaffolding that lays the base for this world to be built upon. The pattern motifs and swatches of textured textiles that bleed into Hatta’s paintings are grown through exchange with her immediate community. Central in the exhibition exists a sculpture; a hybridised palm tree whose trunk is formed of recycled batik, and whose leaves are block printed from ones existing in Kuala Lumpur and in London. This sculpture not only anchors the exhibition physically but also metaphorically, representing the roots and branches of a community and heritage intertwining to create something new and vibrant. Strings of seeping pearls, tangled beads and chains are collected from the community around her - Bob’s Bikes, Honey Gold Fabrics and Aunty Amy Woh’s off-cuts, all quintessential South East London boutiques.
The Last Time, 2024

Oil, acrylic, charcoal, mixed media on canvas on mixed fabric
90 x 120 cm | 35 1/2 x 47 1/4  in

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The gathering of materials and textiles are the scaffolding that lays the base for this world to be built upon. The pattern motifs and swatches of textured textiles that bleed into Hatta’s paintings are grown through exchange with her immediate community. Central in the exhibition exists a sculpture; a hybridised palm tree whose trunk is formed of recycled batik, and whose leaves are block printed from ones existing in Kuala Lumpur and in London. This sculpture not only anchors the exhibition physically but also metaphorically, representing the roots and branches of a community and heritage intertwining to create something new and vibrant. Strings of seeping pearls, tangled beads and chains are collected from the community around her - Bob’s Bikes, Honey Gold Fabrics and Aunty Amy Woh’s off-cuts, all quintessential South East London boutiques.
Some Seeds Are Still Bitter, 2024

Soft sculpture of canvas, ink, mixed fabrik, oil, acrylic and latex
180 x 100 x 100 cm | 70 3/4 x 39 1/3 x 39 1/3  in

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Some Seeds Are Still Bitter II, 2024

Soft sculpture of canvas, ink, mixed fabrik, oil, acrylic and latex
60 x 100 x 100 cm | 23 2/3 x 39 1/3 x 39 1/3  in

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