In Practice: Nadim Choufi Opening and Performance by Elsa Saade
Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 5–8pm
Nadim Choufi, In the Face of the Dragon, 2025. Book and image design by Studio Safar. Courtesy the artist
Join us for the opening reception celebrating In Practice: Nadim Choufi.
In Practice: Nadim Choufi
On View Oct 2 - 11, 2025
Nadim Choufi’s work explores how ideals of progress manifest and seduce, and the price of such visions on the lives subjected to their realization. Through sculpture, film, and text, Choufi draws on visual and literary practices that oppose or complicate narratives of national and global progress. For Choufi’s project at SculptureCenter, he has produced a new publication, In the Face of the Dragon, in which he composed a cento poem from lines borrowed from Arab poets who transform themselves, their lovers, and their people into animals and natural elements, speaking through these tongues of love and resistance.
A performance by Elsa Saade will take place throughout the evening.
Elsa Saade is a Lebanese musician, singer/song-writer, puppeteer and doula based in New York City. Her art practice is driven by the political want for her voice to serve as an intimate companion of metaphorical as well as literal birth and death through performance and storytelling.
