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'By capturing it and registering it, I protect the human heart and soul behind it; I give the woman a space to exist and to be eternal. I surround her with my own world where she becomes a heroin of the Euphrates, where she plays part in the old Syrian mythology; she is celebrated in my own legend. By giving her a place back in the old history of my land, I invite the modern day viewer to appreciate her status, and to link it to our current day life so maybe the modern man will feel ashamed and rethink his values of women and gives them back a fair treatment and their right place in the new society'
(Fateh Moudarres in an interview with Syrian artist Rida Hushus).

The recurring female faces in Moudarres' oeuvre is mostly inspired from Syrian women he would meet time and time again on crossroads. These faces are etched in his memory from his childhood. Such faces may be directly inspired from his own entourage whom he depicts with a detached gaze, as if always looking up to an absent horizon or metaphorically to the future ahead of them.
This creates a feeling of powerlessness at the mercy of a man. Moudarres was a great supporter and advocate of Women's Rights as he was deeply affected by the sadness that dominated his mother's personality due to her personal suffering throughout her own marriage. This simplistic approach to paint a face, with its lines and patches of shadow and looks somehow mysterious is a testimony of a reality that is beautified.