About this work
Figures emerge from cascading veils of fire and shadow, walking together beneath an arch of molten orange and violet. They are both dissolving and ascending, caught in a liminal moment where movement becomes memory, and crossing becomes transformation.
Ahmad Moualla envisions The Passage as a meditation on collective journey, whether migration, survival, or transcendence. The drips and washes echo the traces of time, while the faceless forms invite viewers to imagine their own role in the unfolding passage.
This work invites the collector to embrace movement as essence, the inevitability of change, the poetry of becoming. Owning it means carrying a fragment of humanity’s eternal crossings.
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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