Years Of The Shining Face: You Were Right, O Heart, 2025. Exhibition: Hussein Nassereddine: Years of The Shining Face, Beirut Art Center 2025. Photo: Youssef Itani.
Years Of The Shining Face: You Were Right, O Heart, 2025. Exhibition: Hussein Nassereddine: Years of The Shining Face, Beirut Art Center 2025. Photo: Youssef Itani.
Years Of The Shining Face: You Were Right, O Heart, 2025. Exhibition: Hussein Nassereddine: Years of The Shining Face, Beirut Art Center 2025. Photo: Youssef Itani.
Years Of The Shining Face: You Were Right, O Heart, 2025. Exhibition: Hussein Nassereddine: Years of The Shining Face, Beirut Art Center 2025. Photo: Youssef Itani.
Years Of The Shining Face: You Were Right, O Heart, 2025. Exhibition: Hussein Nassereddine: Years of The Shining Face, Beirut Art Center 2025. Photo: Youssef Itani.
Years Of The Shining Face: You Were Right, O Heart, 2025. Exhibition: Hussein Nassereddine: Years of The Shining Face, Beirut Art Center 2025. Photo: Youssef Itani.
Years Of The Shining Face: You Were Right, O Heart, 2025. Exhibition: Hussein Nassereddine: Years of The Shining Face, Beirut Art Center 2025. Photo: Youssef Itani.
Years Of The Shining Face: You Were Right, O Heart, 2025. Exhibition: Hussein Nassereddine: Years of The Shining Face, Beirut Art Center 2025. Photo: Youssef Itani.
Years Of The Shining Face: You Were Right, O Heart, 2025. Exhibition: Hussein Nassereddine: Years of The Shining Face, Beirut Art Center 2025. Photo: Youssef Itani.
Years Of The Shining Face: You Were Right, O Heart, 2025. Exhibition: Hussein Nassereddine: Years of The Shining Face, Beirut Art Center 2025. Photo: Youssef Itani.
At its core is the notion of “entering time,” a liminal moment where the singer’s voice merges with history, dissolving the boundaries between lived and mythical time. The architectural framework, reminiscent of a stage or threshold, invites viewers to inhabit a scene of both revelation and loss. Mirrored surfaces fracture perception, while rich wood textures and deep red curtains allude to the weight of memory, performance, and the inescapable movement of destiny.
the work traverses histories of conquest, lamentation, and the enduring power of song,where language and voice contend with the inevitability of time’s passage.
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“But a day of God’s days is indeed like a thousand years by your counting.” —Surat Al-Hajj (47)
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The door of time would only open for the singer, whose voice echoed the revelry of conquerors.
- The face lights up in the trees like the singer’s voice: “The time of the heart and that of the ticking bomb are in sync”.
- What was said about “entering time,” i.e. there will be a mere moment where the singer must enter time. Various opinions exist concerning this time and how it might differ from time as experienced by ordinary people. It is a moment where they must either retreat, and watch their song recede, or enter, and therein they might age in that moment countless years, so that they will find their time merge with that other time, until they are as one. From this there is no return.
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And of a surety the Fates will overtake us predestined for us, as we for them are predestined.
(ʿAmr Ibn Kulthūm - 526–584 A.D)
Everything is written one day you are defeated one day you will prevail
(George Wassouf - seconds before entering time)
- “Had the dawn, been delayed for only a second, we would have survied, but death”
- 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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