Artwork Description
Habibi- Demon HPM Pop Street Artwork Limited Edition Giclee Print With Acrylic & Diamond Dust on Photographique Rag Paper by Urban Graffiti Modern Artist Marwan Shahin.
2022 Signed & Numbered Limited Edition of 33 Marwan Shahin's "HABIBI" series an iconic portrait of Lebanese singer Fairuz interpreted throughout different stages of experiencing love, This very limited edition of 33, which each print is intricately arranged with a filigree of Diamond Dust to produce visually intoxicating kaleidoscope-like effects.
Habibi: Demon by Marwan Shahin – The Darkest Mirror of Love
Habibi: Demon by Marwan Shahin erupts as the most confrontational piece in his HABIBI series—a raw, unflinching portrayal of love at its most distorted and destructive. Signed and numbered in a limited edition of just 33 prints, this 2022 hand-embellished Giclée on Photographique Rag Paper combines acrylic and diamond dust with a violent visual vocabulary that stands apart from the rest of the collection. With sharp chromatic contrast, hallucinatory linework, and surreal horror-inspired iconography, Shahin captures a love that has curdled into obsession, vengeance, or emotional decay. At the center of the artwork, the face of legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz has been transfigured into a blazing red skull—eyes piercing, lips peeled into a skeletal grimace, and crowned with menacing horns. The symbolic use of red and black conjures danger, rage, and forbidden power, while the swirling cyan background draws viewers into a disorienting emotional vortex. This composition demands attention, not just for its aesthetic strength but for its thematic force: the seduction and toxicity of love once it crosses into the realm of self-destruction.
Symbolic Violence and Cultural Reverberations
Marwan Shahin reconfigures Fairuz—an icon of romantic melancholy and poetic longing—into a demonic muse, embodying how love can take the shape of madness, control, or spiritual fragmentation. The transformation is not arbitrary. In the arc of the HABIBI series, Demon represents the terminal stage of the romantic cycle Shahin has mapped: from yearning to revelation, and finally to emotional collapse. Here, Fairuz’s visage is consumed by inner turmoil, visually echoing the emotional scars hidden behind public personas and cultural expectations. The visual aggression is softened only slightly by the shimmering presence of diamond dust, which adorns the background with hypnotic glints. This layering of glamor over decay echoes the duality present throughout Shahin’s work: beauty masking suffering, intimacy corrupted by ego, and memory crystallized through trauma. Shahin’s use of optical patterns and stylized textures transforms this portrait into a kaleidoscope of chaos—modern love painted with a gothic pulse.
A Masterstroke of Street Pop Art and Emotional Brutalism
Habibi: Demon is not just a pop culture remix or an experimental graffiti artwork. It is an unfiltered emotional statement rendered through the language of street pop art, executed with exacting technique and deep psychological insight. Shahin’s graphic mastery—a blend of Middle Eastern visual heritage, revolutionary symbolism, and Western pop iconography—makes this print both a compelling piece of visual culture and an emotional weapon. In street pop art, artists often immortalize heroes, satirize leaders, or reframe history. But in this work, Shahin elevates emotional pain itself into the subject. The skeletonized Fairuz isn’t a caricature or villain. She is an archetype—the demon we all face when we confront the shadow side of our own desires, betrayals, and heartbreaks. This piece dares to say what others don’t: that love, when twisted, can become monstrous—and that there is strange, terrifying beauty in that truth. Habibi: Demon is a defiant addition to any serious collection of pop art or graffiti artwork, and a statement on the emotional extremes that define both human relationships and modern iconography.
