At Leila Heller Gallery in Dubai, Indian contemporary artist Manish Nai invites viewers to reconsider the materials that surround them. In In Search of Material within Material, a solo exhibition bringing together works created between 2021 and 2026, discarded objects, industrial surfaces and familiar everyday materials become the starting point for an exploration of form, memory and transformation.

There are artists who paint what they see, and others who paint what they remember, what they have lost, or what words cannot express. Etel Adnan did all three.

Some artists paint what they see. Others paint what they carry within them. For Paul Guiragossian, art became a language for the human experience — a way to express belonging, separation, resilience and the quiet strength of togetherness.