‘People lost their will to fight for something new. I stopped painting completely’ FRÉDÉRIC HUSSEINI

Last October, Frédéric Husseini put on a show of raw, unsettling work in Beirut. Titled Overexposed, it depicted a broken city, its buildings shattered and askew – a clear response to the blast two years earlier. The title refers in part to the city’s fancy new skyscrapers stripped of their glass exteriors. “We have been overexposed by vanity building on quicksand,” he says.

An architect by training, Husseini established himself as an artist in the late 2000s and has exhibited in France and Spain as well as in