You, Only, Inhabit My Years

Artist, writer and our fall 2025 resident Hussein Nassereddine presents an afternoon of film, reading, and conversation around the poetics of time, repetition, and the limits of language. The program features a presentation of his recent video work You, Only, Inhabit My Years (2025), followed by readings from his forthcoming book Years of the Shining Face, and a discussion with artist and researcher Lawrence Abu Hamdan.

In You, Only, Inhabit My Years, Nassereddine stages a haunting meditation on time’s closure and the impossibility of metaphor: a singer, trapped in a sealed interior, endlessly repeats a phrase that turns from invocation to confinement. The work, like much of his writing, wrestles with the tensions of utterance and transmission, and with the temporalities of the unseen.

Date: 02 November 2025

Time: 3 - 4:30PM

Venue: WH51_Common Room

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.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a researcher, filmmaker, artist and activist or as he puts it a ‘Private Ear’. Abu Hamdan has over a decade of experience investigating audio and a doctorate from the University of London on the role of sound in legal investigations and political discourse. In 2023 he founded Earshot, the world’s first not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the study of audio for human rights and environmental advocacy. His work has been presented in the form of forensic reports, lectures and live performances, films, publications, and exhibitions all over the world.

Abu Hamdan has held fellowships and guest professorships at the University of Chicago, the New School, New York and at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His cultural projects that reflect on the political and cultural context of sound and listening have been presented at MoMA New York, MUAC Mexico, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, the 58th Venice Biennale, the 11th Gwangju Biennale, the 13th and 14th Sharjah Biennial, the 34th Biennial of São Paulo, the Tate Modern, Hammer Museum L.A and the Hamburger Banhnof, Berlin. His works are part of collections at Reina Sofia, MoMA, Guggenheim, Hamburger Bahnhof, Van AbbeMuseum, Centre Pompidou and Tate Modern. Abu Hamdan has been widely recognized internationally with awards such as the Grand Prix at Winterthur International Film Festival, the 2020 Toronto Biennial Audience Award, the 2019 Edvard Munch Art Award, the award for best short film at the 2017 Rotterdam International Film Festival and the 2016 Nam June Paik Award for new media. For the 2019 Turner Prize, Abu Hamdan, together with nominated artists Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani, formed a temporary collective in order to be jointly granted the award.