THE MOMENT OF SHOOTING 3
| Artist | |
|---|---|
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 110×140 cm |
| Year | 2025 |
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About this artwork
Beneath a sky weighed with storm and silence, a line of fragile figures braces against the sudden crack of violence. The darkness devours the horizon while streaks of light slice across bodies, freezing forever the instant where life is stolen and history marked in blood.
Ahmad Moualla confronts the viewer with the unbearable weight of atrocity. The Moment of Shooting 3 captures not aftermath but the precise second of rupture, when existence is severed, when the crowd becomes both victim and testimony. It is a painting that refuses to let us look away, urging memory where others might enforce erasure.
To collect this piece is to safeguard a searing truth, a monumental remembrance of lives cut short, carried into eternity. It is both an artwork and an archive of conscience, calling on its keeper to bear witness for generations.
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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.
