Hussein Nassereddine

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The Image of Water 
2025 - Printing plate | engraved zinc 
100 x 70 cm


Work Footnotes: The Image of the Water weaves together poetry, material history, and the act of reproduction. The engraved zinc plate—traditionally a tool for printing—is transformed into an artwork in itself, holding the ghostly imprint of water’s shifting surface. This engraving emerges from carbon rubbings taken from various objects, a method that recalls the historical use of carbon paper by Arabic poetry anthologists for their notes.

By attempting to fix the ever-changing face of water, the work meditates on the tension between the ephemeral and the permanent, the singular and the infinitely reproducible. It reflects on the processes of printing and publishing in the Arab world, where words and images are continuously inscribed, erased, and reimagined.

1. “all the pillars of all the palaces”.  The verses of Al-Mutammim Ibn Nuwayra, in which he saw in his brother Malik’s tomb all the tombs of the world: 
   
   Among the dead he judged me              for shedding all these tears.
   
   You cry at every tomb?” he said,            Remembering that tomb?
   
   Sorrow begets sorrow, I said                  And every tomb is Malik’s.
   
   

AEST


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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