The figures form a circle, yet nothing occupies its center. Their faces are almost erased, as if identity itself has receded, leaving only gesture and relation behind. The blue field stretches between them like a shared silence, and one begins to wonder whether they are gathering around an absence—or whether the absence is what holds them together.
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…