The Encounter of the First and Last Particles of Dust by Stéphanie Saadé

Exhibition Text

Emerging from the artist’s practice, the exhibition’s title evokes a paradox. Dust—measurable yet uncontainable—appears as both origin and residue. It is a minimal unit of inhabitation, a trace of friction that resists closure: matter held in suspension, active and unresolved. Each particle reshapes what it touches, knotting space and time into vibrating, overlapping rhythms.

Bringing together major works from recent years with new site-specific interventions, the exhibition transforms the architecture of the Twin Galleries. At its center, a new commission reproduces the floor of the artist’s family home, turning memory into structure and setting a rhythm of displacement and re-composition. Embroidered partitions, reopened apertures, and fragments of discarded paper translate temporal drift and domestic entropy into material form. Through crossings, asymmetries, and intentional misfits, the works disturb both the memory of the Sursock house and the artist’s own dislocations, generating a precise yet elusive intensity.

Echoing experiences of ungrounding and reconstruction, these gestures explore the persistence of fragments—always shifting, never whole. No single narrative holds. The exhibition unfolds as a thought experiment in fractured time, recurrence, and material transformation.

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Curated by: Anne Davidian