Joe Kesrouani

Kesrouani’s paintings blend abstraction and figuration to convey more introverted, complex, emotionally probing narratives. There are stories buried into the layers of paint in each of his canvases. In the construction of images, Kesrouani’s architectural training plays into both his photographs and paintings.
Though Kesrouani is quintessentially Beiruti, his work allows no easy classification in terms of Arab or Middle Eastern representation. His work actively breaks clichés, rather than reinforcing them. As such, the world created by Kesrouani’s paintings is a world entirely of his own imagination. It is a world nearly busting it seams with pleasure and danger alike, where everything goes and nothing is exactly as it seems.

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