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Screen (Structure 1), 2012, mixed media, 145 x 100 cm
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Sunset (Structure 3), 2012, mixed media, 170 x 100 cm
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Window (Structure 2), 2012, mixed media, 170 x 90 cm
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Window (Structure 2), 2012, mixed media, 170 x 90 cm
Born 1983, Beirut, Lebanon.
Stephanie Saade started studying Philosophy and Fine Arts in Lebanon, before moving to Paris. In Paris, she joined ENSBA (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris) and studied with Christian Boltanski and Jean-Marc Bustamante. In 2008, she obtained a scholarship to study at the China Academy of Arts of Hangzhou, and started learning Chinese print-making. After graduating from ENSBA in 2010 with an MA, she received a new scholarship and moved back to Hangzhou.
Saade is currently pursuing her artistic practice between Lebanon, China, and France, alongside her research on the history of landscape. It is closely related to her work as an artist, which is based on formal experimentations that often focus on the isolation of elements of landscape, and their representation. The artist places these elements in artificial relationships with pieces of furniture, photographs, museum objects or details of clothes, evoking the perception man has had and has of nature, his acquired appreciation of it and its methods, and the place he has assigned himself in it. Each part of the sculpture, whether fabricated or borrowed, fluctuates between different categories and statuses.
Saade's work has been exhibited in China and Paris, and more recently in Lebanon. In November 2011, she was selected to take part in Exposure 2011 at the Beirut Art Center, for which she produced Vitrine 70, a work specially conceived to respond to the Lebanese context. From then on, she has started working on new series of works, that link together her experience of the three countries she has been living in, on the aesthetical level as well as on that of meaning.
Born 1983, Beirut, Lebanon.
Stephanie Saade started studying Philosophy and Fine Arts in Lebanon, before moving to Paris. In Paris, she joined ENSBA (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris) and studied with Christian Boltanski and Jean-Marc Bustamante. In 2008, she obtained a scholarship to study at the China Academy of Arts of Hangzhou, and started learning Chinese print-making. After graduating from ENSBA in 2010 with an MA, she received a new scholarship and moved back to Hangzhou.
Saade is currently pursuing her artistic practice between Lebanon, China, and France, alongside her research on the history of landscape. It is closely related to her work as an artist, which is based on formal experimentations that often focus on the isolation of elements of landscape, and their representation. The artist places these elements in artificial relationships with pieces of furniture, photographs, museum objects or details of clothes, evoking the perception man has had and has of nature, his acquired appreciation of it and its methods, and the place he has assigned himself in it. Each part of the sculpture, whether fabricated or borrowed, fluctuates between different categories and statuses.
Saade's work has been exhibited in China and Paris, and more recently in Lebanon. In November 2011, she was selected to take part in Exposure 2011 at the Beirut Art Center, for which she produced Vitrine 70, a work specially conceived to respond to the Lebanese context. From then on, she has started working on new series of works, that link together her experience of the three countries she has been living in, on the aesthetical level as well as on that of meaning.