An aesthetic experience is not an appeal, and a picture is not political agitation. But l’art pour l’art, art just for art’s sake, is not enough for Tammam Azzam. His works inspire usto think about ourselves and about the world in which we live. They posequestions, but they don’t give any answers. What we think, see, feel is left upto us. Those who find references to the situation in Tammam Azzam’s homecountry are free to do so. Tammam Azzam himself sees the events in Syria since 2011 as symbolic for the state of our world at the beginning of thetwenty-first century. He uses art to address the urgent questions of our times, such as war, violence, migration, destruction, and construction; finding images that aim directly at our emotions and burn themselves into our memory.