Hussein Nassereddine
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That Someone Else Had Replaced Me, 2025. Performance.  Courtesy of Alserkal Foundation.
That Someone Else Had Replaced Me, 2025. Performance.  Courtesy of Alserkal Foundation.
That Someone Else Had Replaced Me, 2025. Performance.  Courtesy of Alserkal Foundation.
That Someone Else Had Replaced Me, 2025. Performance.  Courtesy of Alserkal Foundation.
That Someone Else Had Replaced Me, 2025. Performance.  Courtesy of Alserkal Foundation.
That Someone Else Had Replaced Me, 2025. Performance.  Courtesy of Alserkal Foundation.
That Someone Else Had Replaced Me, 2025. Performance.  Courtesy of Alserkal Foundation.
That Someone Else Had Replaced Me, 2025. Performance.  Courtesy of Alserkal Foundation.
That Someone Else Had Replaced Me, 2025. Performance.  Courtesy of Alserkal Foundation.
That Someone Else Had Replaced Me, 2025. Performance.  Courtesy of Alserkal Foundation.
That Someone Else Had Replaced Me, 2025. Performance.  Courtesy of Alserkal Foundation.
That Someone Else Had Replaced Me, 2025. Performance.  Courtesy of Alserkal Foundation.
That Someone Else Had Replaced Me, 2025. Performance.  Courtesy of Alserkal Foundation.
That Someone Else Had Replaced Me, 2025. Performance.  Courtesy of Alserkal Foundation.

That Someone Else Had Replaced Me




2025 - Performance 

1h 20 min                         English and Arabic



In this perfromance, Hussein Nassereddine draws on his ongoing exploration of time, song, and the poetics of history to stage a passage between narration, image, and voice, where the boundaries between memory and myth continually blur.

Rooted in Nassereddine’s research into conceptions of temporality in Islamic writings, the history of Arabic poetry, and the impossibility of metaphor, the performance extends these inquiries into the space of the live moment. The artist recounts tales of time, lamentation, and song; his narration unfolds through a continuous score of live readings, projected videos, and archival recordings, joined by invited performers whose recitals and voices prolong the work’s echo.

Together, they create a space where poetry, familiar melodies, and fleeting presences intersect a movement through which voices, images, and objects cross into the unseen. Within this shifting continuum, traces of singers and poets resurface, altered yet enduring, revealing time as a field of recurrence, displacement, and material transformation.

Excerpts and Full pefromance videos are availble upon request. 





Featuring

WYWY Music
Mustafa Ahmed 


Presented at
Concrete - Alserkal Foundation, Duabi, United Arab Emirates. 2025.







AEST


Paris — Beirut


© 2026 All Rights Resrved
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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Latest texts 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.