Nadim Choufi is a Lebanese visual artist who works with sculpture, text, and moving image. He currently lives and works in Rotterdam.
His work explores ideals of progress, how they manifest and seduce, and shape the lives subjected to their realization. He draws on desires that challenge dominant national and global narratives of progress.
His most recent projects examine diplomacy as a force of progress that warps its subjects.
TBA
Solo Show at SculptureCenter
Moderate tear, refurbished to be heard
Duo show with Johann Arens
Resident at Jan Van Eyck Academy
During my residency at the Jan van Eyck Academy I made a sculptural project titled: And I woke up one morning screaming in the face of the dragon
And I woke up one morning screaming in the face of the dragon is a series of works consisting of wall hangings, sculptures, and a cento poem. The cento is composed entirely of lines from Arab poets who alter themselves, their lovers, or their people into animals or natural elements as articulations of love and resistance.