Studio Safar

Publication design for and , In the Face of the Dragon (2025).

Documentation views from the exhibition at SculptureCenter, New York. Copies of In the Face of the Dragon are stacked on shelves throughout SculptureCenter’s dark basement, inviting visitors to navigate the space and read by the light they carry.

Installation view: In Practice: Nadim Choufi, SculptureCenter, New York, 2025
Photos: Charles Benton

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.

Publication design for and , In the Face of the Dragon, 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.

Opening Reception
Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 5–8pm
Performance lecture by and .saade
New York