Created By
Ahmad Amin
Mixed media
Curator
Ghanem Hassan
There’s a kind of beauty in Lebanon that’s hard to explain. Messy, loud, unpredictable, yet deeply magnetic. In this work, Ahmad doesn’t try to simplify it. Instead, he leans into the rush: the street vendor, the oblivious officer, the shouting signs, the overlapping voices painted right into the air. It’s chaotic, yes! but it’s alive. This painting isn’t a scene... it’s a sensation. A reflection of Beirut mornings, overheard jokes, honking cars, and the warmth of strangers who somehow become family. It’s bits and pieces, layered like the city itself, funny, exhausting, full of color and contradiction. To visit Lebanon is to walk through this very composition: a place where nothing makes sense, yet everything belongs. Ahmad reminds us that the beauty of Lebanon isn’t in order but it’s in the pulse.
This mixed media artwork captures the essence of daily life in Lebanon-chaotic, layered, humorous, and deeply human. It presents a crowded urban scene filled with overlapping figures. A street vendor sells kaak unnoticed by the distracted police officer, while street signs are either ignored or lost in the noise. All of this unfolds under a canopy of common Lebanese phrases heard every day in the streets, painted directly into the scene like echoes of the people's voices. Crafted using markers and acrylic paint on canvas, the composition is purposefully chaotic and colorful, mimicking the Lebanese urban rhythm: disorganized yet functional, humorous yet exhausting. What may seem like nonsense to some is, to others, simply a very normal day.
Created By
Ahmad Amin
90 x 90 cm | 35 x 35 in
Unframed
15 cm | 6 in
2019
