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Galerie Patricia DorfmannDirector : Patricia DorfmannGallery creadon’s year: 1990www.patriciadorfmann.comgalerie@patriciadorfmann.com+33 1 42 77 55 4161 rue de la Verrerie75004 ParisLionel Sabahé, Le flamboyant projet, 2012. Soot, acrylic and dust on paper, 65 x 50 cm © Lionel Sabahé. Courtesy Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, ParisFocus ardst : Lionel Sabahé, born in 1975Others ardsts exhibited on the booth: Rebecca Bournigault, Bapdste Debombourg, Artus de LavilléonPrices of the works: from 1 200 € to 5 000 €Lionel Sabahé works across a broad range of media, including paindng, drawing, sculpture and animadon. Ogen his ideas and realizadons are the result of spontaneous or improvised processes reminiscent of the postwar COBRA movement or early twendeth-­‐century Dadaist techniques such as assemblage. Predominant in his work is the idea of re-­‐use: whether it is an outdated modf, organic detritus such as skin and nails, or ignored materials like dust, he uses concepts and materials as a sign of the passing of dme and as a way of quesdoning ardsdc pracdces. In his provocadve and playful work, Sabahé ogen uses materials that are refreshingly unusual, be it in their ordinariness or their potendal to shock or surprise.Similarly the ardst is ahracted to dust as a material since it contains within it evidence of the passing of dme. Largely made up of hair and dead skin, dust in the home or other interior spaces is the result of a condnual process of regeneradon (human beings renew all their consdtuent cells in around a month) and as such contains a strong existendal dimension. Using dust carefully gathered from Châtelet-­‐Les Halles metro stadon, where large crowds congregate every day, Sabahé incorporates it into his work, forming it into a series of drawings and other figures. He chose this place to collect the dust as, in his own words, ’a huge number of people pass through there every day. Paris is also the most tourist-­‐orientated city in the world, so in view of both of these facts, this dust is the most amazing collecdon of pardcles leg behind by living people! It’s a poedc way of collecdng a wide social and genedc sample.Presse mappe I Seite 22