“Traveling Light” at Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, 2022

In this body of work Darvish straddles the line between beauty and destruction.

In a series of ritualistic performance pieces, Darvish pushes his work into a spiritual direction by writing Sufi poetry over finished oil paintings. This uncomfortable act of artistic expression aims to merge notions of the spiritual and the physical as well as the the divine and the mortal.

The core his works is a tribute to both the classical tradition of Western painting and the timeless wisdom of Sufi poetry, inviting the viewer to reflect on their intersection.