British Lebanese artist Nabil Abou Hamad, a surviving member of the 1960s Beirut “artists of the Horseshoe,” explores the violence of borders, both physical and psychological, in his series Human Feet. Informed by personal encounters with displaced people, his paintings evoke the suffering of those forced to flee, and teh systems that exploit, brutalise, and discard them. Abou Hamad “confronts power structures, manufactured divisions, and the recurring cycles of exclusion that define the migrant experience in today’s world.”
