joana hadjithomas & khalil joreige
dream a little dream

Joana Hadjithomas confesses that she and Khalil Joreige “couldn’t stand each other” when they first met as teenagers. However, their shared quest to “interrogate reality” drew them close and now, “fully inseparable”, the artist duo live and work together between Beirut and Paris. I meet them at The Third Line in Dubai before the vernissage of their March show Lebanese Rocket Society and the unveiling of their video installation A Letter Can Always Reach its Destination, for which they are among the recipients of the prestigious Abraaj Capital Art Prize (the work depicts individuals delivering monologues based on the text of spam emails that the artists had collected). While the duo usually avoid fairs, “because it is not the artist’s place”, they credit Art Dubai with catapulting regional artists onto the international radar.