The table shifts here from a space of gathering into an operating table, where the body becomes the point at which fear, knowledge, and survival intersect. The surrounding faces gather as witnesses to a moment suspended between life and absence, while the bull appears as a visual sign evoking strength, sacrifice, and confrontation. Between the coolness of green and the glow of orange, the image unfolds as an open structure of questions around the body, destiny, and the traces left by presence.
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…