Emerging directly from the artist’s practice, the exhibition’s title ties a paradox. Dust – quantifiable yet defying measure – becomes at once the first and last trace, origin and remainder.
Presenting major works from recent years alongside site-specific interventions, the exhibition transforms the architectural fabric of the Twin Galleries. At its core, a new commission, reproducing at full scale the floor of the artist’s family home, together with embroidered partitions, temporal calligrams, and everyday scraps reassembled into an architecture of granular time.
Through crossings, asymmetries, and intentional misfits, the exhibition echoes experiences of displacement and reconstruction, manifesting fragments that persist, drift, and resist finality. No narrative remains whole; instead, the exhibition becomes a thought experiment in disjointed temporalities, recurrence, and material transformation.
Press release from Sursock Museum
Image: Stéphanie Saadé. Traversée des états (Crossing States). 2024. Detail. Terrazzo panel inlaid with fragments of Fairuz’s album Jerusalem in My Heart (1972) (vinyl, cassette, and CD). 90 x 120 x 2 cm. Photography by Youssef Itani. Image courtesy of the artist and Marfa’ Gallery
