Stéphanie Saadé's Dust Paradox at Sursock Museum

Stéphanie Saadé's exhibition 'The Encounter of the First and Last Particles of Dust' at Sursock Museum in Beirut transforms the Twin Galleries with site-specific interventions and major recent works. The centerpiece is a new commission replicating the floor of the artist's family home at full scale, alongside embroidered partitions, temporal calligrams, and reassembled everyday scraps. The show explores displacement and reconstruction through asymmetries and misfits, presenting a thought experiment on disjointed temporalities and material transformation. Dust is framed as both origin and remainder, a paradox central to Saadé's practice. The press release emphasizes that no narrative remains whole, echoing experiences of fragmentation. The exhibition includes works like 'Traversée des états (Crossing States)' (2024), a terrazzo panel inlaid with fragments of Fairuz's album 'Jerusalem in My Heart' (1972). The image is courtesy of the artist and Marfa’ Gallery.