A crowded vessel carries figures of thought, history, and memory across an uncertain sea, transforming the boat into a metaphor for cultural survival. The compressed gathering suggests a civilization carried forward through its thinkers, myths, and inherited knowledge. Against the open blue, symbols of rescue and drift introduce a tension between preservation, exile, and the fragile passage of memory through time
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…