Grass Grows In the Mouth — Hussein Nassereddine

Grass Grown In The Mouth When You Talk About It, 2017.. Exhibition:Fotopub, Nuevo Mesto, Slovenia. 2017.

Grass Grown In The Mouth When You Talk About It, 2017.. Exhibition:Fotopub, Nuevo Mesto, Slovenia. 2017. Exhibition View with works of Ghaith Abi Ghanem and Jad Melki Sunoj D Daniele Genadry Hussein Nassereddine Stéphanie Saadé Yara Saqfalhait Isa Toledo.

Grass Grows In The Mouth When You Talk About It

2017 - Sound Installation.

12 min 14 sec

How to make an image without image? This sound installation explores the possibilities inherent in images built verbally: formed in the mind by language, unlimited by periphery, materiality or stillness. Departing from the practices of Abbasid and Umayyad poets, sent to ancient ruins to record their architecture and spatial significance in words, Nassereddine plays with the tropes of Arabic poetry composition. Grass Grows In The Mouth When You Talk About It imagines the artist’s natal village in south Lebanon. Locked in a cycle of destruction and rebuilding, it is a place marked materially by the regional political upheaval of the last century. This rhythm has muddied memories – generations of village architecture are preserved only in testimony, channelled through the voice of the artist. In an age of ubiquitous photography, poetry reminds us of the slippery, ambiguous nature of memory; the work argues for the precise and expressive potential of the invisible image.

A site specific installation. Part of the 2017 BeMA residency / Jezzine.

AEST

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.