works
polished brass
Sèvres Outdoor
polished brass
Sèvres Outdoor
photograph, Moon Gold leaf, 15 x 10 cm
On random photographs taken by the artist, the moon, appearing very small, is gilded with Moon Gold leaf.
photograph, Moon Gold leaf, 15 x 10 cm
On random photographs taken by the artist, the moon, appearing very small, is gilded with Moon Gold leaf.
Re-Enactment is centred around objects fabricated by others, that the artist reproduces. Encountered by chance in different places, the chosen objects escape standardization.
They have been conceived according to a strange logic, different from the artist’s own logic. Through the process of reproduction, this foreign logic is understood and
appropriated. The re-created objects surpass practicality. They access new layers of meaning, and raise questions about the cultural aesthetic they are the results of, or not.
Re-Enactment generates a slow collection of unimportant, neglected objects, which quickly disappear otherwise. Their lives become longer.
welded iron, stainless steel and brass, 40×270 cm
A ladder is made of three different metals, incarnating the idea of an ascension.
key, earth, 15x15x7 cm
The key of the childhood house of the artist in Lebanon is stuck in a small pile of earth from the country where she currently resides.
childhood photograph, 24-carat gold leaf, various dimensions
A photograph from the artist’s childhood is covered over in gold leaf. The past memory is no longer accessible and instead reflects the present.
printed map, mirror stainless steel track, 83x83cm.
A familiar trajectory, regularly undertook by the artist when she lived in Paris, is transposed onto the map of Lebanon. A number of obstacles prevent the Parisian path to be crossed : it is interrupted by a river, buildings, or the absence of streets. By coincidence, the end point on the new map is located very close to the place where the artist lived as a child.
print, water, 29,7 x 42 cm
A photograph of the sky and the sea lays in a puddle of water. The water from the sea falls down from the photograph to the floor. The water on
the floor goes up on the photograph and slowly degrades it. Everyday, the water is renewed.
installation size : 50cm
A vase is broken into smaller and smaller fragments, until some of its fragments are reduced to powder.
163 x 278cm / 2 laser-jet photographs divided in bands and laminated on both sides of the blades of a Venetian blind
When the gallery opens, the blinds are shifted : the day sky is seen from the inside and the night sky from the outside. When the gallery closes, the blinds are shifted again and the night falls inside of the gallery. During the opening hours, it is the day only inside of the gallery and everywhere outside is dark. During the closing hours, the works in the gallery are put to sleep, and the exhibition moves to the outside. Window Shade establishes a relationship between the individual and natural phenomena; In off-beat with the natural cycles, a double reality is created: the day rises twice in the city, and the night falls twice.
hand made iron and stainless steel chain, 300 x 5 x 1 cm
A chain is composed of alternated stainless steel and iron links. It attaches together two materials with opposite qualities. The stainless steel links will never rust, the iron links will rust. With time, the chain will dissolve.
hand made iron and stainless steel chain, 300 x 5 x 1 cm
A chain is composed of alternated stainless steel and iron links. It attaches together two materials with opposite qualities. The stainless steel links will never rust, the iron links will rust. With time, the chain will dissolve.
natural white rose, artificial white rose, vase, 15x30cm / A natural rose and its plastic imitation cohabitate in the same vase. As the days pass by, the difference between them becomes an evidence.
biography
Stéphanie Saadé is a graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris and from the China Academy of Arts of Hangzhou.
Stéphanie Saadé ‘s work suggests and plays on the poetic and the metaphor. She supplies us with clues, signs, and sometimes silent leads with no images, which communicate reciprocally like the words of a single sentence. It is up to the viewer to decipher, like an archeologist in front of traces, fossils, and fragments. The enigma has often to do with the artist’s personal history.
She has recently had an exhibition in Parc Saint-Léger, Pougues- les-Eaux contemporary art Centre / Hessel Museum, New York / home Works 7 Beirut / Sharjah Biennial / la Traverse, Alfortville Contemporary Art Centre / MuHKA, Antwerp / Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht / La Conservera, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo of Murcie, Spain / Mosaic Rooms, London / New Positions, Art Cologne / Van Eyck, Maastricht / Beirut Art Center / Beirut Exhibition Center / A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah / Qalandyia International Biennial, Palestine.
Stéphanie Saadé was in residency in Villa Empain, the Boghossian Foundation of Brussels (2017), in Maastricht Jan Van Eyck Academy (2014), and in Paris Cité Internationale des Arts (2015).
Voir aussi :
Stéphanie Saadé – Le Chemin du Retour – Fiac 2017
Solo exhibitions
2020
2019
2018
2017
2015
2018
Retrouvailles avec des Amis Inconnus, galerie anne barrault, Paris
Traversée des États, Parc Saint-Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
Destinée cherche propriétaire, Maison Salvan, Labège, France
2017
The Second Space, Marfa’ projects, Beyrouth, Liban
2016
Building a Home with Time, Counterspace, Zurich, Suisse
The Leaf Once Pilgrim, galerie Akinci, Maastricht, Pays-Bas
The Shape of distance, Grey Noise gallery, Dubaï, EAU
En Dormance, galerie anne barrault, Paris, France
2015
Discipline of Nostalgia, adhoc gallery, Vigo, Espagne
New positions, Art Cologne, présentation solo avec la galerie Akinci, Allemagne
Van Eyck open studios, Jan van Eyck academie, Maastricht, Pays-Bas
Group exhibitions
2020
2019
2016
2015
2018
Condo unit, avec Stéphanie Saadé, Charbel-Joseph H. Boutros, Michael-John Wheelan, The Breeders, Athens, GR
Art Dusseldorf, Akinci gallery, Areal Böhler, Dusseldorf, DE
Zeitspuren, The power of now, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel, CH
Home Beirut. Sounding the neighbors, MAAXI, Rome, Italie
Beirut, Beyrut, Bayrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout, exposition collective itinérante, Oslo Kunstforening / Ystad Konstmuseum
Cycles of collapsing Progress, Rachid Karamé International Fair, Tripoli, Liban
OR, co-curated by Marcel Tavé, Philippe Jockey, Jean-Roch Bouiller & Miriame Morel Deledalle, MUCEM, Marseille
Sundays, 019, Gand, Belgique
Liste Art Fair, avec Marfa’Projects (Beirut), Bâle, Suisse
Moonshow avec Caline Aoun, Charbel-Jocseph H. Boutros, Fahd Burki, Mehreen Murtaza, Stéphanie Saadé et Michael John Whelan, Grey Noise Gallery, Dubai UAE
So long ago it feels like a memory of someone else, Hessel Museum, New-York
Le Chemin du Retour, Printemps de l’art contemporain, parcours artistiques à Marseille, Aix en Provence, Istres et Chateauneuf-le-rouge
Ashkal Alwan 25th anniversary exhibition, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon
2017
Sharajah Biennale 13, curated by Christine Thome, Tamawuj, Act 1
le chemin du retour, FIAC hors-les-murs, jardin des Tuileries, Paris / galerie anne barrault
Home Beirut, sounding the neighbours, curated by Hou Hanrou & Giulia Ferracci, MAXXI, Rome, IT
The Materiality of the Invisible, Van Eyck, Marres and Bureau Europa, Maastricht, Pays Bas
Home is so Fucking Complicated, curated by Samuel Leuenberger,galerie Nathalie Halgand, Vienna
Scamming, curated by Franziska Sophie Wildfoerster and Flavio Palasciano,Palazzo Lancia, Torino, IT
Ghosting of Beings and Worlds, Grey Noise gallery, Dubai
Quiet, curated by Samuel Leuenberger, Barbara Seiler gallery, Zurich, CH
Kindlin, curated by Rachel Dedman, Fotopub, Novo Mesto, SL
Epitopou, ephemeral works in the landscape, Andros Island, Greece
Kunsthalle 3000, a project by Thomas Geiger, Dalieh, Raouché, Beirut, LB
Transformations, Akinci Gallery, Amsterdam
Two to Tango, Sperling gallery, Munich
2016
Say it with flowers, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Allemagne
Sèvres Outdoors, Sèvres, cité de la céramique / galerie anne barrault
Voice of the Border, curated by Fatma Cheffi,galerie Selma Feriani, Tunis, Tunisie
nouveau ! avec Tiziana La Melia, Guillaume Pinard, Dasha Shishkin, Céline Vaché-Olivieri et Alun
Williams, galerie anne barrault, Paris
Still Life, curated by Franck Balland,espace culturel Claude Parent, Nevers, France
Les Fragments de l’Amour, curated by Léa Bismuth, La Traverse, centre d’art contemporain d’Alfortville, France
Do Boomerangs Always Come Back ? Castle Out-Rekem, Limburg, BE
The Morning I Killed a Fly, curated by Chiara Ianeselli, Galeria Mazzoli, Modena, IT
2015
I spy with my little eye : an emerging generation of Beirut artists, Mosaic Room, Londres, Royaume-Uni
Adam, Eve & the Devil, avec Charbel-joseph H. Boutros, Stanley Brouwn, David Claerbout, Harald
Gruyter & Jos Thys, Ann Veronica Janssens, MARRES, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht,
Pays-Bas
The Girl with the Sun in her Head, Van Eyck, Maastricht, Pays-Bas
Sun, Romance and Destruction, galerie Anne Barrault, Paris, France
Eternel Retour, avec Mathieu Mercier, Rodolphe Delaunay, Alderic Trevel, galerie Perception Park,
Paris, France
2014
13, LA CONSERVERA, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Murcie, Espagne
Passages, Akinci gallery, Amsterdam, avec Sophie Calle, Hamza Halloubi and Imogen Stidworthy
The Pink Sky, MuHKA, Anvers, Belgique
59e salon de Montrouge, Le Beffroi, Montrouge, France
Memory Material, Stéphanie Saadé et Jananne al Ani, Akinci gallery, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
Witness Matter, Vitrine gallery, Londres, Royaume-Uni
2013
Intangible Experiences,… curated by Amanda Abi Khalil, Grey Noise gallery, Dubaï, E.A.U
Journeys through our Heritage, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beyrouth, Liban
Crisis Practice, WORKSHOP gallery, Beyrouth, Liban
Another Time, The Running Horse gallery, Beyrouth, Liban
We hesitated between arrangements, modulations and manoeuvres, MINUS 5, Mkalles, Liban
TRANSFORM, curated by Sibylle Heinger & Franz Krähenbühhl, Berne, Suisse
PROGR-Fenster, PROGR, Berne, Suisse
Peeping Tom Issue#3 Beirut Launching exhibition, Papercut, Mar Mikahaël, LB
2012
Qalandiya International (QI) Biennale, biennale itinérante, Palestine
Young Artist of the Year, the Hassan Hourani Award, A.M.Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine
A Territory of Resistance, The Running Horse gallery, Karantina, Liban
2011
Exposure, Beirut Art Center, Beyrouth, Liban
Bibliography
2014 – VITRINE 70, TEXT AND WORK IMAGES PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 06, CEMENT BLOCK, BROADSHEET, EDITOR : CARL HAASE
IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CHARLES NYPELS LAB.
2013 – STANDING IN THE LIMINAL ZONE, OR HOW DUBAI IS GRADUALLY CHANGING THE MENTALITIES, TEXT AND WORKS
PUBLISHED IN PEEPING TOM’S DIGEST #3 BEIRUT.
2011 – VITRINE 70, IN EXPOSURE 2011 EXHIBITION CATALOGUE, BEIRUT ART CENTER.
CATALOGUES
2015
– THE MORNING I KILLED A FLY, WITH AN ESSAY BY CHIARA IANESELLI, CURATOR, PUBLISHED BY MAZZOLLI GALLERY, MODENA, ITALY.
– VAN EYCK OPEN STUDIOS CATALOGUE.
2014
– THE PINK SKY EXHIBITION CATALOGUE, MUHKA.
2013
– CRISIS PRACTICE, PUBLICATION, WORKSHOP GALLERY, LEBANON.
– VOLUME 2, ANNUAL PUBLICATION, GREY NOISE GALLERY, DUBAI.
– SALON DE MONTROUGE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE.
2012
– YOUNG ARTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD EXHIBITION CATALOGUE, A.M.QATTAN FOUNDATION, RAMALLAH, PALESTINE.
2011
– EXPOSURE 2011, EXHIBITION CATALOGUE, BEIRUT ART CENTER, LEBANON.
– PEEPING TOM DIGEST #3 BEIRUT.
– JOURNEYS THROUGH OUR HERITAGE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE, BEIRUT EXHIBITION CENTER, LEBANON.
2010
– CATALOGUE DES DIPLÔMÉS, ENSBA, PARIS, FRANCE.
PUBLICATIONS
2016 – REWIND, FAST, FORWARD, COUNTER SPACE, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND.
2015 – TRANSFORM, BERN, SWITZERLAND.
– I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE, MOSAIC ROOMS, LONDON, UK.
– ADAM, EVE AND THE DEVIL, MARRES, HOUSE FOR CONTEMPORARY CULTURE, MAASTRICHT, NETHERLANDS.
– THE GIRL WITH THE SUN IN HER HEAD, WITH INTERVIEWS BY PADRAIC E.MOORE, CURATOR, AND CONTRIBUTIONS BY ARTISTS, VAN EYCK, NETHERLANDS.
Grants and residencies
2015 – ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AT CITÉ DES ARTS, PARIS, FRANCE.
2014 / 2015 – ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, JAN VAN EYCK ACADEMIE, MAASTRICHT, NL.
2013 – ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, PROGR, BERN, SWITZERLAND.
2010 / 2012 – SCHOLARSHIP FOR POST-GRADUATE PROGRAM, CHINA ACADEMY OF ARTS, HANGZHOU.
2005 / 2010 – ENSBA, ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DES BEAUX-ARTS, PARIS, GRADUATED WITH THE DNSAP.
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exhibitions
Upcoming exhibitions
- Art Brussels
Tour & Taxis, Brussels
25 - 28 June 2020 - solo exhibition
Akinci, Amsterdam
18 April - 20 May 2020
Gallery exhibitions
A Reunion with Unknown Friends
13 January - 3 March 2018
En Dormance
17 octobre - 21 novembre 2015
