Hussein Nassereddine
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Laughing On The River, Your Eyes Drown In Tears, 2022-202. Performance. Exhibition: Hussein Nassereddine: Years of The Shining Face, Beirut Art Center 2025. Image: Pia Khattar.
Laughing On The River, Your Eyes Drown In Tears, 2022-202. Performance. Exhibition: After Rain. Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2024. Image courtesy of the Diriyah Biennale Foundation.
Laughing On The River, Your Eyes Drown In Tears, 2022-202. Performance. Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon, 2024. Image: Vartan Seraydarian.
Laughing On The River, Your Eyes Drown In Tears, 2022-202. Performance. Exhibition: Hussein Nassereddine: Years of The Shining Face, Beirut Art Center 2025. Image: Pia Khattar.
Laughing On The River, Your Eyes Drown In Tears, 2022-202. Performance. Exhibition: Hussein Nassereddine: Years of The Shining Face, Beirut Art Center 2025. Image: Pia Khattar.
Laughing On The River, Your Eyes Drown In Tears, 2022-202. Performance. Exhibition: Hussein Nassereddine: Years of The Shining Face, Beirut Art Center 2025. Image: Pia Khattar.
Laughing On The River, Your Eyes Drown In Tears, 2022-202. Performance. Exhibition: After Rain. Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2024. Image courtesy of the Diriyah Biennale Foundation.



Laughing On The River, Your Eyes Drown In Tears
2022 - 2026 - Performance | 35 min  
Arabic with English subtitles


Commissioned by Jameel Art Center

Presented at  As if narrating to an audience gathered around water, artist Hussein Nassereddine orates stories of bygone poetry, and of poets whose jaws would appear brimming with marble. His fabulations are at once timeless and shaped by specific historical encounters, mirroring the complex rapport between the Arabic language, poetics and water. 

The artist invites us to long desert nights where sea waves wash over poets’ bodies, and then turn into silver shimmering atop ponds, foreseeing the glimmer on the surface of rivers, alongside which kingdoms and their luscious gardens would come to be built centuries later. Tears turn to ponds, and ponds dissipate over time. Nothing remains but the wet voice of the poet, and librarians’ records held in dry books, and historians’ accounts written on papers flooding with the blue of rivers and springs. This lecture-performance, held in Arabic with English subtitles, draws out from Nassereddine’s examination of histories and resources of poetry, ruins, construction, water and image-making.
Excerpts and Full pefromance videos are availble upon request. 

















  1. Le 32 Bis,  Tunis, Tunisia.  09 April 2026.

  2. Years of the Shining Face. Hussein Nassereddine, Solo Exhibition, Beirut Art Center, Beirut Lebanon. 6 February - 6 June 2026 .

  3. After Rain. Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 20 February 2024 - 25 May 2024. Curated by Ute Meta Bauer.

  4. Strum and Slang. Pickle Bar, Berlin, Germany.  31 May 2024. Curated by Patricia Couvet.

  5. Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon, 21-22 February 2024.

  6. The Earth Has Shifted. L'atlas, Paris, France. 18 January - 17 February 2024. Curated by Radicants / Sarina Basta.

  7. An Ocean in Every Drop. Jameel Art Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 18 September 2022- 2 April 2023. Curated by Rahul Gudipudi and Nora Razian.



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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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