SAHAR SAÂDAOUI Belgium, b. 1986

Sahar Saâdaoui was born in Brussels in 1986. She lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She studied Textile Design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels.

Careful to details, awakened to the secret language of symbols, perceptive to clues, Sahar Saâdaoui gives us to decode the real through her encrypted system of points positioned on an analytical grid, reproducing the alphabet's twenty-six letters. For the Creator Word is made of words, and words are made of letters. She plays and foils the apparent simplicity of the alphabetical system in so many works that respond, complement each other, structuring by four the frames which themselves, in a setting in abyss, develop other gridlines, retrieving the scraps of fallen fabrics from the cutting of letters, to superimpose them in subtle transparencies, sometimes closed in glass boxes that are the modern shrines, as if to emphasize its preciosity and fragility, the character of relics. In this case, the code, linear or punctuated, becomes volume, superposition, and watermark. Her practice is close to meditation, an art of patience and attention.

In 2014, Sahar Saâdaoui developed her practice during a first residency at the TAMAT, of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. In 2016 she was a resident at WIELS, Centre d'art contemporain de Bruxelles and L'ACADEMIA BELGICA de Rome. In 2018, she won the Louise Dehem Prize, which the Académie Royale des Sciences et des Lettres de Belgique awarded. She participated in the exhibition Dans l'intimité des crinolines, as part of the Young Artist Award of the Parliament of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.