Title: I Paint Your Grace, I Paint Your Pain, I Paint Love
Artist(s): Reza Derakshani
Exhibition Dates: on until 15 September
Location: Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai
About: ‘I Paint Your Grace, I Paint Your Pain, I Paint Love’ marks Reza Derakshani’s first solo show in five years, unveiling a powerful selection of never-before-seen works. Drawing from three key series—The Hunt / Riders, Day and Night / Fig Leaf, and Migration / Grey Zone—the exhibition explores themes of memory, identity, and transformation. Derakshani blends Persian artistic traditions with personal and socio-political narratives, using motifs like horses and turtles to symbolize freedom, migration, and belonging. His expressive use of color, metallics, and metaphor positions his art as both a spiritual and political act—an ongoing dialogue between past and present, tradition and innovation.