Stéphanie Saadé’s Pyramid (2022) series is composed of everyday clothing items, such as socks, T-shirts and leggings layered and sewn into one another in an incremental fashion, from the smallest infant size to largest adult sizes. Forming a gently sloping, vertical silhouette, the works resemble a stratified monument of growth and care, testifying to the evolution of intimate matter as well as its relationship to the body. The resulting structure is both familiar and uncanny: a cartography of life stages that materialises time as both visible and tactile.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Stéphanie Saadé (b. 1983, Beirut) currently lives and works between Beirut and Paris. Her artistic practice develops a language of suggestion, playing with poetics and metaphor. She shares clues and signs, occasionally even imageless and silent passages with the viewer, inviting them to decipher these fragments as parts of a larger narrative. Her solo exhibitions include The Encounter of the First and Last Particles of Dust at Sursock Museum, Beirut (2025); Building a Home with Time at Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel (2023); The Travels of Here and Now atMuseum van Loon, Amsterdam (2022). She has participated in the group exhibitions Présence, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2023); Luogo e Segni (Places and Signs), Punta della Dogana, Venice (2019); Sharjah Biennial 13 (2016).
EXHIBITED WORKS
Stéphanie Saadé (b. 1983)
Pyramid, 2022
Bodysuits and T-shirts of all sizes (from 0–1 months to size XXL), thread
Variable dimensions
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Anne Barrault
Stéphanie Saadé (b. 1983)
Pyramid, 2022
Leggings of all sizes (from 0 –1 months to size XXL), thread
Variable dimensions
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Anne Barrault
Stéphanie Saadé (b. 1983)
Pyramid, 2022
Socks of all sizes (from 0 –1 months to size 46, women’s), thread
Variable dimensions
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Anne Barrault
