The circle is full, yet its center remains curiously empty. The pale table offers no clear event, no visible offering, perhaps not even a reason for the gathering. Faces drift in different directions, each absorbed in its own silence. One begins to wonder whether they have gathered around something, or around the absence of it.
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…