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    In Practice: Nadim Choufi

    In Practice: Nadim Choufi

    Oct 2025

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    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. In a new publication for his project at SculptureCenter, Choufi composes 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.

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    In Practice is made possible by the Elaine Graham Weitzen Commissioning Fund for Emerging Artists, which supports the production of new work by artists selected from SculptureCenter's annual open call.

    Major support for the In Practice 2025 program is provided by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The In Practice program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

    Generous support for In Practice is provided by Sarah Elson.

    Support for all of SculptureCenter’s work with artists from abroad is provided by the International Council: Anonymous, Stephen Cheng, Micki Meng, Yan Du, Thomas Berger, Antonio Murzi and Diana Morgan, Audrey Rose Smith and Vicente Muñoz, and Füsun Eczacıbaşı - SAHA.

    Leadership support for SculptureCenter’s exhibitions and programs is provided by Barbara and Andrew Gundlach, Carol Bove, Eva Hesse Charitable Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, and Teiger Foundation. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Eleanor Heyman Propp, Jacques Louis Vidal, Jill and Peter Kraus, Marguerite Steed Hoffman Donor Advised Fund at The Dallas Foundation, Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins, and Richard Chang. Generous support is provided by Amy and Sean Lyons, Candy and Michael Barasch, David Andersson & Andrew Fine, David Maclean, Fred Wilson, Jane Hait and Justin Beal, Libby and Adrian Ellis, and the May and Samuel Rudin Foundation, Inc. Additional funding is provided by Steven Abraham and Lisa Young, Gabrielle Humphrey, Lily Lyons and Julien Sarkozy.