That Someone Else Had Replaced Me – وانه غيري خد مكاني

Artist and writer Hussein Nassereddine draws on his ongoing exploration of time, song, and the poetics of history to stage a passage between narration, image, and voice, where the boundaries between memory and myth continually blur.

Rooted in Nassereddine’s research into conceptions of temporality in Islamic writings, the history of Arabic poetry, and the impossibility of metaphor, the performance extends these inquiries into the space of the live moment. The artist recounts tales of time, lamentation, and song; his narration unfolds through a continuous score of live readings, projected videos, and archival recordings, joined by invited performers whose recitals and voices prolong the work’s echo.

Together, they create a space where poetry, familiar melodies, and fleeting presences intersect a movement through which voices, images, and objects cross into the unseen. Within this shifting continuum, traces of singers and poets resurface, altered yet enduring, revealing time as a field of recurrence, displacement, and material transformation. 

Date: 23 November 2025

Time: 4:30PM 

Venue: Concrete, Alserkal Avenue (Google Pin)

Presented as part of Fall 2025 Residency Open Studios.

Bio:

Hussein Nassereddine is a multidisciplinary artist living and working between Beirut and Paris. His work originates from a practice around language that builds fragile monuments - some verbal, some sonic, some visual - rooted in collective histories and resources of time and poetry.

His works, performances and texts have been presented in museums and institutions around the world, including Beirut Art Center (2025), Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale (2024), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2023), Jameel Art Center (2022) among others.

His book How to see the palace pillars as palm trees was published with Kayfa ta (Arabic/2020). The English translation was published in 2024.