A group exhibition with George Awde, and Stephanie Saade
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George Awde, Windows, 2012, Untitled, 94x74cm
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Stephanie Saadé, Window Shade, 2013, Print on aluminum, 266x166cm
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George Awde, Windows, 2012, Untitled, 94x74cm
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George Awde, Windows, 2012, Untitled, 94x74cm
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George Awde, Windows, 2012, Untitled, 94x74cm
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George Awde, Windows, 2012, Untitled, 94x74cm
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George Awde, Windows, 2012, Untitled, 94x74cm
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George Awde, Windows, 2012, Untitled, 94x74cm
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Stephanie Saadé, Window Shade, 2013, Print on aluminum, 266x166cm
The Running Horse is pleased to present “Another time”, a duo exhibition presenting the works of Lebanese artists George Awde and Stephanie Saade.
Another Time highlights the gallery in time and space as a conscious shift: the artworks are defined by their own temporality and also act as a meditative output in the space. The analogy between both works is in the framing and the conveyance of the viewer’s observation as a result of the way the works prescribe timely examination, and a liberation from all forms of materiality.
George Awde’s “Windows” is a selected series of photographs overlooking people sleeping - in bedrooms, across windows, and through buildings - playing off of the artist’s trust as an observer. In a gloom of blues, and sleepy colors, the intimate series focuses on “male bonding, kinship, and affinity” while “inviting the viewer into the most personal and vulnerable of surroundings.” An underlying thread in Awde’s work, trust, is a foundational aspect of the portraits and passages he creates, occupying a fine line between the boundaries of time and space - public and private. This transforms the underlying intimacy, inviting the viewer to recast and reconsider these stolen moments.
Stéphanie Saadé’s Window Shade is a venetian blind that spreads in the middle of the front window of the gallery. A photograph of a day sky is printed on its stripes on one side, and a photograph of a night sky on the other side. The artist has devised this site-specific piece so as to create a rhythm of day and night, as a timekeeper: During the day, the blinds are shifted so that the day sky photograph is seen from the inside of the gallery and passers by would see the night sky photograph from the outside. At night, the blinds are shifted again and the night falls in the gallery. A relationship is created between the individual and natural phenomena, except that Window Shade acts in parallel with the rise of the morning and the fall of the night as they don’t follow the natural cycles. The artist appropriates the space and elevates it as the day and the night adapt to the schedules of the gallery. A double reality is created : the day rises twice in the city, and the night falls twice.
Window Shade implies a seclusion of the gallery space following different rules.
It is a vain desire of control on what is unreachable and ever-escaping…
The Running Horse is pleased to present “Another time”, a duo exhibition presenting the works of Lebanese artists George Awde and Stephanie Saade.
Another Time highlights the gallery in time and space as a conscious shift: the artworks are defined by their own temporality and also act as a meditative output in the space. The analogy between both works is in the framing and the conveyance of the viewer’s observation as a result of the way the works prescribe timely examination, and a liberation from all forms of materiality.
George Awde’s “Windows” is a selected series of photographs overlooking people sleeping - in bedrooms, across windows, and through buildings - playing off of the artist’s trust as an observer. In a gloom of blues, and sleepy colors, the intimate series focuses on “male bonding, kinship, and affinity” while “inviting the viewer into the most personal and vulnerable of surroundings.” An underlying thread in Awde’s work, trust, is a foundational aspect of the portraits and passages he creates, occupying a fine line between the boundaries of time and space - public and private. This transforms the underlying intimacy, inviting the viewer to recast and reconsider these stolen moments.
Stéphanie Saadé’s Window Shade is a venetian blind that spreads in the middle of the front window of the gallery. A photograph of a day sky is printed on its stripes on one side, and a photograph of a night sky on the other side. The artist has devised this site-specific piece so as to create a rhythm of day and night, as a timekeeper: During the day, the blinds are shifted so that the day sky photograph is seen from the inside of the gallery and passers by would see the night sky photograph from the outside. At night, the blinds are shifted again and the night falls in the gallery. A relationship is created between the individual and natural phenomena, except that Window Shade acts in parallel with the rise of the morning and the fall of the night as they don’t follow the natural cycles. The artist appropriates the space and elevates it as the day and the night adapt to the schedules of the gallery. A double reality is created : the day rises twice in the city, and the night falls twice.
Window Shade implies a seclusion of the gallery space following different rules.
It is a vain desire of control on what is unreachable and ever-escaping…