Stéphanie Hubert $Sleeping Beauty

Tuesday 4 November 2025 18:00
Friday 5 December 2025 19:00

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Stephanie Hubert, BABAM

Sleeping Beauty by Stéphanie Hubert is a deeply personal and poetic exploration of loss, memory, and grief. The project combines documentary photography, sound, writing, and artificial intelligence to evoke the invisible traces left by absence.

Beginning with a graphic reportage in a hospital setting, the work evolved into an immersive, experimental installation. Some images remain untouched, silent witnesses to the experience of departure; others are digitally transformed using AI-generated patterns, mirroring the emotional dissolution of memory over time.

Rather than distorting reality, the artist uses digital techniques to amplify emotional truth, creating a visual and sonic dialogue between what is seen, felt, and remembered. Sleeping Beauty reflects on the role of photography in documenting what gradually disappears and suggests that grief may find form not only in what remains visible, but in what is carefully reconstructed through presence, absence, and imagination.

This exhibition is presented as part of Press the Shutter, Type the Prompt: Photography & Truth in Times of AI, organised by Goran Gaber, Andrew Cusworth, and Anne-Sophie Gabillas within the Channels of Digital Scholarship initiative by the Maison Française d’Oxford and Digital Scholarship @Oxford. It brings together international artists who explore generative AI as a tool, a narrative device, a critical lens, and a poetic medium — revealing fresh possibilities at the intersection of art, technology, and storytelling.

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Graphic designer-author and teacher-researcher. Born in 1986, lives and works in Martinique.
Stéphanie Hubert develops a committed and sensitive practice at the crossroads of graphic design, illustration, writing, photography, and sound. Her research is built around the visible, invisible, and imagined forms of the Living, closely linked to the Caribbean territory, intimate narratives, and memory objects.
She graduated from the Institut Régional d’Arts Visuels de la Martinique in graphic design (DNAT, 2009), and co-founded the InQuarto agency in 2012, where she has been working as an independent designer ever since.
Since 2021, she has been teaching at the Campus Caraïbéen des Arts, where she shares her transversal approach, attentive to narration, editorial experimentation, and eco-conscious design.
Her minimalist approach is characterized by great freedom of action, embracing agile, intuitive, and accessible creation. She explores the lightweight formats of graphic reportage, hybrid forms of publishing, and visual writings open to the interplay of archives, fiction, and emotion.
Passionate about music, she integrates personal sound environments into her projects as memorial entities. Writing lies at the heart of her work, not as commentary, but as material.