Keam Tallaa

Is a French-Syrian visual artist. Born in 1987 in Damascus, Syria, lives and works in Strasbourg.

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Sous le soleil, 2020 (detail)

Exilé I, 2020, oil on wood, 30 × 22 cm. A standing figure with a dark animal head, painted in greys and pale blues. — Exilé I, 2020, oil on wood, 30 × 22 cm

La Cage, 2019, oil on canvas, 167 × 120 cm. Animals crowded together behind the bars of a cage, painted with quick strokes in blues, whites and greys. — La Cage, 2019, oil on canvas, 167 × 120 cm

Les chiens, 2022, oil on canvas, 27.5 × 35 cm. A pack of dogs on pale, snow-like ground, painted in blues and whites. — Les chiens, 2022, oil on canvas, 27.5 × 35 cm

Sur la corde, 2020, oil on canvas, 27.5 × 35 cm. Pale cloths hanging on a line in front of a shadowed space crowded with figures, in dark blues and white. — Sur la corde, 2020, oil on canvas, 27.5 × 35 cm

I think constantly of animals as figures that can express what men and women in the Arab world live through.

Keam Tallaa, Un itinéraire

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