KHADIJA SAYE, 2017
KHADIJA SAYE
IT WOULD have been only a matter of time. Death had no need to push her into the limelight. She was on her way there—attracting the interest of gallerists and curators; celebrated, at 24, as one of the youngest artists at the 2017 Venice Biennale. But Khadija Saye lived with her mother on the 20th floor of Grenfell Tower, a lower-income housing project in London’s North Kensington neighborhood—and neither escaped the blaze that raged there in the early hours of June 14, claiming (at the time of this writing) at least 79 lives.