The Iranian painter and book illustrator Wahed Khakdan studied from 1967 to 1970 in Tehran at the Faculty of Applied Arts. After initially abstract painting, he found a realistic conception of art in the 1970s, which made him famous not only in Iran, but also in Europe, where his pictures can be seen in numerous exhibitions. It is the everyday, carelessly forgotten objects of a shabby house that inspire Wahed to fine-art paintings. The tattered doll of a toddler or the worn out shoes that have worn a person many kilometers. Memories hang on them that no one can now access.