Joe Kesrouani: Beirut Remixed
This article first appeared in Reorient Magazine, 1 October 2012 Joe Kesrouani is a busy man. Recently, he took part in a project entitled Hoods for Heritage, wherein the Porsche Centre in Lebanon offered 16 artists the chance to decorate the bonnet of its 911 model in any way they pleased. Kesrouani's own contribution, a black and white halftone vinyl print of one of his more provocative pictures of a rear-view of a woman's torso, was exhibited alongside work the work of other young, aspiring Lebanese artists and designers such as Ayman Baalbaki, Zeina El Khalil and Nada Debs, in the Villa Audi Mansion in Beirut. As part of the initiative, the bonnets were later auctioned off in aid of the Lebanese National Heritage Foundation. More
