The Monument Series emerged from Ahmad Fuad’s confrontation with unbearable witnessing.He began with photographs from Gaza - stark, unfiltered records of violence, loss, and ruin. Choosing to sit with them far longer than most would dare. These images, often glanced at fleetingly before being scrolled past, demanded more. They asked him to remain, to hold their silence and weight, and to transform them into something that could endure.Fuad’s paintings are not journalistic. They do not aim to report, explain, or shock. Instead, they function as monuments - not grand stone edifices, but intimate spaces of remembrance. Each canvas becomes a site where traces of bodies, rubble, and absence are fixed, stilled, and rendered impossible to ignore.
For Fuad, this series is a ritual of slowing down, a resistance to the fleetingness of digital imagery and news cycles. Through each brushstroke, he translates the violence of collapse into texture, colour and marks that insist on life. The fragmented figure, a pair of feet beneath the rubble, becomes a universal proxy for lives erased, lives unnamed yet profoundly human.