For Frieze London 2024, Marfa’ is proud to present the work of Stéphanie Saadé.
Stéphanie Saadé is the winner of the Fluxus Art Prize at Frieze London 2024.
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. In her oeuvre, personal experience is invoked exclusively as a universal subject.
Geographical Coordinates (2023)
Used clothes, embroidery, various dimensions
The geographical coordinates of the 6 apartments inhabited by the artist since the Beirut Port Explosion in 2020 are embroidered on clothes acquired and worn by her following her departure from Lebanon.
Autocollants (2024)
Sticker residues, cardboard. 42 x 140 cm
Sticker residues of the artist’s daughter are collected and assembled in little compositions.
Petits Papiers (2022)
Bits of paper, glue, cardboard. 3 Sizes: A0, A3 and A5
All the little bits of paper obtained by the artist in the course of her daily life (labels, tickets, written notes, stickers, wrapping paper, masking tape, work residues, etc.) are kept and assembled into collages.
It is… (2023)
Archival ink on paper, 42 x 29.7 cm
1- The twelve hours of a day are handwritten. Each sentence is tilted according to the time it indicates.
2- The sixty minutes of an hour are handwritten. Each sentence is tilted according to the time it indicates.
3- The sixty seconds of a minute are handwritten.
Filter (2024)
Filter papers from Lucky Strike cigarettes, glue, cardboard, watercolor. 18.3 x 13.1 cm The filter papers of smoked cigarettes are collected and assembled