Hussein Nassereddine

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A Few Decent Ways To Drown
2022 - Installation |  Limestone, steel, carbon paper and sunlight
    Dimensions variable


Work Footnotes: Does water ever remain the same? Is it the same water of bygone ages and their eroded landmarks? Hussein Nassereddine’s installations, texts and videos explore the potential of language to create unstable monuments, and poetry as a point of access to long disappeared places and people.
 
Drawing on Arabic poetry from the 6th century onwards, A Few Decent Ways to Drown explores the fragile relationship between poetry, water, and time. Presented here is one of three fountains whose floral shape recalls ornamental water features once found across cities, courtyards, and palaces throughout the region - their significance preserved through poems and texts.

The fountain’s surface is made of papers found tucked away between the pages of volumes that belonged to collectors and editors of poetry manuscripts, still retaining their inscriptions and observations. Exposure to the sun over time has altered the paper’s colour and texture.

1. Literary editors and anthologists would write their notes on blue sheets of paper, blue as water, then they would fold them in books and forget them, until the sun would shine on them for years, and dye their edges amber gold. Perhaps what the sun imprints on the papers is all that was lost in poetry, and perhaps it is the image of the sun on the surface of the water.
   

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Paris — Beirut


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Hussein Nassereddine
Current Exhibitions: 

1. Faire Place au Monde, Cité internationale des arts, France - 8 Oct 2026 - 16 Jan 2027
2. Loss Marginalia, A M Qattan Foundation, Palestine - 16 May - 26 Oct 2026 

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