The Second Space
Marfa’ is pleased to announce Stéphanie Saadé’s first solo exhibition in Beirut, The Second Space.
The work of Stéphanie Saadé develops a language of suggestion, playing with poetics and metaphor. She shares clues, signs, imageless and occasionally silent trails with us, which interact like the words of a single sentence. It is for the viewer to decipher them, as would an archaeologist faced with traces, fossils, and fragments. This enigmatic quality often stems from the artist’s own experience. With Stéphanie Saadé, the immaterial is actual matter, perpetuated by memory beyond the exhibition and the experiences it engenders.
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Stéphanie SaadéElastic Distance, 2017Program, mobile phoneI-phone 6Courtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist -
Stéphanie SaadéGolden Memories, 2015-20175 childhood photographs, 24-carat gold leaf
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Stéphanie SaadéRe-Enactment FR/Self , 2017Mirrors, pedestal, belt35 x 35 x 165cmEdition of 3 plus 1 artist's proofCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Stéphanie SaadéHighlight, 2017Plug, electrical wire
VariableUnique with 3 VariationsCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist -
Stéphanie SaadéRe-Enactment LB/ Chain, 2017Rusted and new chain, padlock2 x 10 x 105cmEdition of 3 plus 1 artist's proofCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Stéphanie SaadéGraceful Degradation , 2013Welded iron, stainless steel and brass4 x 40 x 270cmEdition of 3 plus 1 artist's proofCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Stéphanie SaadéDown to Earth, 20153 prints on paper40 x 50 cm (framed_Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proofCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Stéphanie SaadéIdentity in Change, 2017Passport photograph, silver leaf3.5 x 4.5cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Stéphanie SaadéThin Ice, 2015Diamond earring, floorvariableCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Stéphanie SaadéMoongold, 2016Photograph, Moon Gold leaf15 x 10 cm
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Stéphanie SaadéThe Second Space , 2017Old wooden beam, three brass itineraries, belts, beam29 x 29 x 460cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Stéphanie SaadéContemplating an Old Memory, 201724-carat gold cast of a lentil seed, live lentil sprout of the same seed, plates, waterVariableCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
Stéphanie Saadé
Stéphanie Saadé was born in 1983 in Lebanon. She lives and works in Paris and. She graduated in Fine Arts from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris and was an artist in residence at Van Eyck, Maastricht and Cité des arts, Paris. She is one of the four artists selected to be part of Centre Pompidou Paris artist
residence program Accélérations (2022.23), curated by Michel Gauthier and in partnership with BNP Paribas Banque privée.
Saadé had solo exhibitions at Centre Pasquart, Biel, Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les- Eaux, Maison Salvan, Labège and Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam as well as a duo exhibition at Marres, Maastricht. Her work was exhibited collectively at Sharjah Biennal 13 / Punta della Dogana, Venice / MAXXI, Rome / MOCA Toronto / MuHKA, Antwerp / Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris / Jameel Art Center, Dubai / MISK Art Institute, Ryadh / Saudi Art Council, Jeddah / Home Works 7, Beirut / La Criée, Rennes / National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík / Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo / Ystad Konstmuseum, Ystad / Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, New York / Mosaic Rooms, London / Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Her first monograph Building A Home With Time was published following her solo exhibition at Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland. Her works are in the collections of CNAP Paris, MAXXI, Rome, Centraal Museum,
Utrecht, FMAC Paris, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah and Saradar Foundation, Lebanon.
