Hamdan Saray, a 49-year-old Iraqi painter born in Baghdad, fled his homeland in 2003 after the American invasion of Iraq. He transformed the trauma of surviving three wars into a powerful artistic journey. Saray, who currently resides in Belgium, explores …
Iraqi painter Hamdan Saray: “Art is also a way of showing the horror in this world”
Hamdan Saray at his atelier. Picture by Ouassima Oualkadi