The composition gathers a circle of women around a central field of text, evoking the solemn frontal order of Byzantine icons. The manuscript-like script, pomegranate, flowers, and halo-like architectural form reinforce a sense of ritual and symbolic continuity. Reinterpreted through a contemporary lens, the work becomes a secular icon of femininity, memory, and cultural inheritance.
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…