Muhammed Saed

Saed is a proficient figurative artist hailing from the Southern Lebanese town of Ain Qana in the Nabatieh Governerate, and whose paintings provide a unique socio-political and cultural commentary on the confessionalist atmosphere of his native country. Paralleling the aesthetic of Pop Art without crossing its boundaries of banality and gratuitousness, his artworks would intelligently welcome or confront art viewers, teasing them with impassioned political satire. Cloaked within the realm of Postmodernism, his art ironically connects the contrasting worlds of fine art and popular culture, perhaps even alluding towards a countercultural movement that visually unearths truths and post-truths of the Lebanese Zeitgeist, from the days of the Civil War until now. His impressive oeuvre, and while not only limited to the following series, is best divided between a political series of Neo-Pop art, and another that displays in Neo-Expressionism a sentiment towards post-war culture and nationalist identity.