A King Made of Nothing — Hussein Nassereddine

A King Made of Nothing, 2025. Video still.

A King Made of Nothing

2025 - Video | Color, sound.

7 min 14 Sec

A King Made of Nothing is a video that explores the notions of the human voice, geography, time, and age, as singers grow old, changing their mythological bodies, into human ones. Using found footage, digital images, poems written by the artist, as well as footage shot by the artist’s own mother in their native village in south Lebanon, Nassereddine collects the human voice as a personal marker of intimacy and a reflection on time itself.

The videos depict rare instances, where singers and their voices appear to have escaped time -even for a mere second- only to come back from this moment, with an ever more present reminder of their mortality.

Excerpts and full video are availble upon request.

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Paris — Beirut

Hussein Nassereddine

Current Exhibitions:

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

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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 rooted in collective histories and resources of songs, poetry and ruins.