Title of the workshop:
Treasure to Trash and Trash to Treasure, Rethinking the Lives and Destinies of Fallen Objects
Calendar of the workshop:
- Tuesday, March 20, 2018: 12:30-3:30 pm; Small auditorium, 2nd floor
- Wednesday, March 21, 2018: 11:00-2:00 pm; classroom 107 then Atelier basement 2
- Friday, March 23, 2018: 10:00-1:00 pm; Atelier basement 2
- Tuesday, March 27, 2018: 9:30-12:30 pm; Atelier basement 2
About the speaker:
Stéphanie Saadé was born in 1983. She received a Diplôme National Supérieur d’Arts Plastiques (DNSAP) from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 2010. In 2008, and from 2010 to 2012, she received two scholarships to study at China Academy of Art, Hangzhou. Saadé’s work takes as a departure point the moment when one becomes estranged from his surroundings. The artist explores the shape, or the shapes, of distance, and makes them visible, as well as the changes in shape of the individual that goes through this estrangement. A process of Artificial Nostalgia is developed, through which strange locations, familiar to the artist, are assembled. Single objects are composed from differences brought together. Saadé has held a number of solo exhibitions, including The Second Space, Marfa Gallery, Beirut, 2017; The Leaf Once Pilgrim, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, 2016; Building a Home with Time, Counter Space, Zurich, 2016; and En Dormance, Galerie Anne Barrault, 2015. Her work was also shown in group exhibitions, notably at MAXXI (Rome, 2017), Sharjah Biennial 13 (UAE, 2017), Marres—House for Contemporary Culture (Maastricht, 2017), Galerie Akinci (Amsterdam, 2014 and 2017), Grey Noise Gallery (Dubai, 2013 and 2017), Ashkal Alwan (Beirut, 2016), Selma Ferriani Gallery (Tunis, 2016), The Mosaic Rooms (London, 2015), Vitrine Gallery (London, 2014), Beirut Exhibition Center (2013), Qattan Foundation (Ramallah, 2012), Qalandiya International (Palestine, 2012), and Beirut Art Center (2011). She was an artist in residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie, the Netherlands (2014–2015), and the Cité Internationale des arts, Paris (2015). Her texts have been published in Peeping Tom’s Digest #3: Beirut, and Cement Block, issue 6. www.stephaniesaade.com.