THE ADORATION IS MUTUAL: SAINT LAURENT PRESENTS LOUISE SARTOR

words by PHOEBE GIBSON-DOUGALL
photography by ALEX KOSTROMIN

Art and fashion are like twin-stars, cosmically bound to one another and constantly in orbit. In much the same way, designers and artists work in harmony, each recognising the gifts of the other. Through his work at SAINT LAURENT: RIVE DROITE, Anthony Vaccarello searches for other celestial bodies—an exclusive collection of diverse art and design pieces—to expand Saint Laurent’s universe. His latest curatorial offering is ADORATION, a selection of paintings by Louise Sartor, presented by SAINT LAURENT BABYLONE, on view from December 10 to January 11.

 © Courtesy of the Artist and Crèvecoeur, Paris.

Louise Sartor is a French artist known for her miniature works, through which she reveals the porosity of the current boundaries between private and public life. Her art invites you to come closer, to enter an intimate and fragile world immortalized through gouache on equally fragile mediums: cardboard packaging, torn newspaper pages. She draws from a multitude of places, mixing images from social networks, the media, and private collections. In her work, everyday scenes are reimagined and today’s prevailing mythologies are questioned, culminating in art that is both a political statement and an aesthetic iteration.

Louise Sartor has presented exhibitions at Crèvecœur in Paris and at Le Consortium, Dijon, La Società Delle Api, Monaco and Art Basel Hong Kong, Miami, Paris and Basel.