Stéphanie Saadé

In her work, Stéphanie Saadé (1983, Lebanon) addresses subjects like memory and the individual or collective experience of history and place. She explores the shape of duration and distance, and makes them visible. Objects and photographs are affected in a subtle way, measuring terms of growth or decrease, articulated by the passing of time, weathering and other natural phenomena. A process of Artificial Nostalgia is developed, through which strange or estranged locations, familiar to the artist, are assembled. Stéphanie Saadé finds a delicate balance between what is fleeting and what is tangible, constantly pondering the idea that everything in and around us is composed of different entities, shapes and elements.
Stéphanie Saadé graduated in Fine Arts from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. She attended a post-graduate program at the China Academy of Arts, Hangzhou, was an artist in residence at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, and the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Her work has been exhibited across the world, including MuHKA, Antwerp (BE); Mosaic Rooms, London (UK); La Conserva, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Murcia (ES), Beirut Art Center (LB), Grey Noise, Dubai (UAE), and recently in Castle OudRekem and at AKINCI, Amsterdam (NL). Her work has been exhibited at the 13th Sharjah Biennial (U.A.E.), Barbara Seiler Gallery (CH), Counterspace Zurich and later 2017 she took part of ‘The Materiality of the Invisible’ at Marres, Maastricht (NL) and the exhibition ‘Home Beirut, Sounding the Neighbours, curated by Hou Hanrou and Giulia Ferracci’ at MAXXI, Rome (IT). Stéphanie Saadé lives and works in Beirut and Paris. Recent solo show: Parc St. Léger, France.

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