Omid Delafrouz’s first memories are from when he was two years old and his
parents fled with him from Iran to Sweden. Being so young, he blended in well
but always noticed a difference: while the other kids and their parents took
things lightly, for Delafrouz and his family everything was a matter of life and
death and, as he explains, ‘I have always carried a sense of the tremendous
importance and mysterious nature of everything.’ This sense of awe is translated
into his work through intricate layers of composition and colour.
