A powerful work by Iraqi-born, Brussels-based artist Hamdan Saray was acquired at Art Brussels 2025, represented by Pedrami Gallery Antwerp.

The works by Hamdan Saray captures daily life in Iraq—its tension, resilience, and fleeting moments of tenderness. With raw yet poetic brushwork, Saray evokes the atmosphere of streets marked by challenges and quiet endurance. The piece radiates a sense of lived history, where fragments of routine life carry the weight of survival and memory.

At the heart of the composition, a small boat drifts across a dark, ink-blue expanse—fragile and overloaded, its figures etched in haste and silence. Saray renders the scene with a haunting lyricism: flickers of moonlight on water, faces half-lost to shadow, gestures frozen between fear and hope. It is an image of flight, but also of dignity—an ode to those who leave behind not only land, but language, seasons, and the sound of home. The painting floats between documentary and dream, where escape becomes both exile and rebirth.

The work was published on the national Belgian Newspaper “De Tijd” - “Slenteren op Art Brussels” - 25/04/2025