7.8.9.MARCH2025
| Artist | |
|---|---|
| Medium | Mixed media |
| Dimensions | 49×64 cm |
| Year | 2025 |
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About this artwork
With urgent strokes and visceral movement, this figure emerges not as an individual but as a collective scream. Painted in black, red, and violent gestures, it embodies the weight of memory and the impossibility of forgetting. These works bear not just images, but dates etched in history as unerasable wounds.
In this series, Moualla resists silence. By inscribing exact dates of massacre from the Syrian coast, he transforms painting into testimony, art as both remembrance and accusation. Each figure becomes a witness, carrying the burden of those who can no longer speak.
For collectors, these works are not merely acquisitions but acts of bearing witness. They remind us that art does not always soothe; sometimes it insists on memory, demanding we stand before history with eyes unclosed.
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About the Artist
Ahmad Moualla (b. 1958, Banyas, Syria) is one of the most influential figures in contemporary Syrian art. A painter, graphic designer, and professor, he studied at Damascus University and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Known for his large-scale, theatrical canvases that blend expressive figures with Arabic calligraphy, Moualla’s work explores themes of identity, memory, and power with striking emotional intensity.
His paintings have been exhibited widely across Europe, the Middle East, and North America, and are part of prestigious institutional and private collections. Moualla’s significance extends to the global art market, with his works featured in major auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s. As a pioneer who introduced performance into Syrian visual art, he continues to shape the region’s cultural landscape with vision and depth.
