The figures touch, embrace, offer a rose, hold glasses, yet their eyes seem almost hollow. It creates a beautiful contradiction: the gestures speak of closeness, while the gaze suggests absence. Perhaps the gathering is full of affection but emptied of true presence. Or perhaps the figures are moving through familiar rituals while something inward has already withdrawn.
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…