Thousands of African asylum seekers, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea, have been held in the HolotDetention Facility since 2013. During this time, the site and its surroundings have been a focus ofphotographic activity for Ron Amir, whose documentary work brings to the Israeli art scene complexsocial situations that are outside the commonplace field of vision. In his photographs from Holot,Amir directs his gaze not at the detention facility itself, but at the signs left by the day-to-dayactivities of the detainees in the desert landscape around it. What looks at first like a landscapephotograph reveals itself at a second glance as a picture of traces–traces of waiting to be released.Other activities thatare characteristic of daily life in Holot are shown in video works that furnishadditional meaning to the time dimension investigated in the exhibition.