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SculptureCenter Opening Reception | In Practice: Nadim Choufi | Performance by Elsa Saade

Thursday, October 2 , 5:00 pm 8:00 pm


Join SculptureCenter for a reception on Thu, Oct 2, 5-8pm to celebrate the exhibition opening of “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.


Details

Date:
Thursday, October 2
Time:
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.sculpture-center.org/events/14532/in-practice-nadim-choufi-opening-and-performance-by-elsa-saade

Organizer

Cheryl Chan

SculptureCenter

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Nadim Choufi, "In the Face of the Dragon," 2025. Book and image design by Studio Safar.