The composition brings together religious authority, collective presence, and the symbolism of sacrifice. The central figure evokes a spiritual or clerical presence, while the two rams seem to occupy different states: one dark and physically present, the other pale and almost spectral, suggesting what has already been sacrificed, lost, or transformed into memory. The work unfolds between ritual, absence, and the enduring trace of what is gone.
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…