Nadim Choufi is a Lebanese visual artist and editor. He works across mediums that return to sculpture and text.
His work explores visions of progress: how they seduce, manifest, and shape our lives. He focuses on nonconforming desires that resist dominant visions and reveal other ways of being.
His recent projects explore diplomacy, poetry, and monstrosity.
He lives in Rotterdam.
In Practice: Nadim Choufi
Solo Show at SculptureCenter
Traces We Keep
A Dragon in the Halls of Diplomacy
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.