The figures gather around a luminous center, where the shell becomes a visual sign suspended between fertility and absence. Within the wedding-like scene, it carries the promise of beginning, yet remains an empty form that once contained life. The image therefore opens onto a tension between union and loss, presence and trace, allowing memory to persist within the very space of celebration.
Talal Moualla
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Born in Syria in 1952, Talal Moualla is an artist, critic and researcher whose practice has shaped contemporary Arab visual discourse for more than five decades. Since the 1970s, he…