Ali Cha’aban: An artist ‘who is not an artist’

Talent is difficult to find in this day and age with the amount of artists popping up here and there in the region, but true talent arises when you least expect it.

One of these young talents is 25-year-old Ali Cha’aban, born and raised in Kuwait and of Lebanese origin. With work being displayed in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, this artist is not your everyday type of artist.

He has a keen interest in anthropology, a subject he studied earlier and that helped grow his curiosity, which progressed his fascination of modern cultural terms. He mixes fun with the serious, old with the new and sarcasm with the controversial.

Some of his projects include typography and calligraphy as well as other society-based mix, one of which is named “Our society remix” where he portrays a number of heroes, protagonists and antagonists of modern society and characters such as from the movie “The Avengers,” “Thor” as a flirt and “Captain America” as a McChicken.

Another is “Film” where he used classical Arab actors, actresses and comedians and turns them into the hipster form of the modern age. These include actors like Rushdi Abathah, comedian Ismael Yaseen and the beautiful actress Suad Hosni. It’s his personal method of expression and the way he relates to modernity which has put him in the spotlight.

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Ali Cha’aban: An artist ‘who is not an artist’