About this work
Bathed in deep green, the canvas unfolds as a spectral gathering. A crowd of shadowed figures parts to reveal a central apparition: a man and his mother, suspended in solemn dignity. Their presence radiates both fragility and eternity, as though rising from the earth itself, bearing the weight of memory and love.
Created in 2019, this work anticipates Ahmad Moualla’s later explorations of violence, exile, and resilience. Here, the figures appear less as victims than as eternal witnesses, rooted in myth, yet alive with contemporary urgency.
Acquiring He and His Mother means holding an early, significant piece from Moualla’s trajectory. It speaks not only of artistic evolution but of history in gestation, a painting that bridges mythic pasts with prophetic echoes of the storms to come.
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…
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