Artwork: Installation by SATR, *Beneath the Quiet Guardians*, Abbaye Saint-Martin, Laon, France, 2025

London-based street artist SATR was recently asked to participate in the Arts Urbains in Laon, France, and created this wonderful installation incorporating her distinctive graphics at Abbaye Saint-Martin. Titled Beneath the Quiet Guardians, SATR wrote this about the work:

“At the centre of four interconnected scrolls hangs the frontal portrait of a gargoyle. Tracing the origin of gargoyles from dragon-slaying myths to their symbolic construction and eventual dissolution, the series explores how society repeatedly imbues objects with mythical purposes, only to forget them again.

The spatial installation draws upon the structural logic of the Chinese character “回,” which evokes notions of return, enclosure, and cyclical repetition, echoing themes of migration and recurrence.”