Perrotin Dubai has opened an exhibition of new and earlier works by Belgian painter Pieter Vermeersch, on view from 30 September to 22 November at the gallery's Gate Village space in DIFC. The show, previewed in an article last updated on 27 September, gathers eleven works in a restrained grey scenography designed to let colour breathe. Vermeersch, born in Kortrijk in 1973 and trained at Ghent's Higher Institute for Visual Arts and the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp, is best known for gradient paintings — surfaces where one colour flows almost imperceptibly into another. His method often begins with photographs, typically of cloudless skies, which he inverts or turns into negatives before translating them into paintings that shed gesture and narrative, leaving colour as pure condition of perception. The practice extends beyond canvas. Vermeersch works with marble, agate and petrified wood, milling and painting natural materials while letting their inherent qualities remain visible — stone treated not as support but as participant. A new work, Untitled (2026), places painting and stone side by side in search of a freer interaction, suggesting that painting can live in the space between things. For Dubai, the exhibition is an unusual proposition: a show that asks for slowness and sustained attention in a city built on speed. The grey walls that are not quite grey, the colours that pass into one another, the stones that carry a deeper memory than the viewer — the gallery frames it as a test of how we look, and of whether art can still demand half an hour of silence.