Installation at Noor Riyadh, 2023
Talin Hazbar’s practice is rooted in an elemental engagement with land and its shifting formations. Sand, coral, clay, and stone are not passive materials in her work but restless systems that move between collapse and cohesion. She approaches them as volatile and adaptive bodies, carriers of both immediacy and memory.
Her recent works focus on landscapes held in states of suspension, where pins and supports hold surfaces together yet cannot prevent their inevitable drift. This precarious balance becomes a metaphor for the intimacy and fragility of the relationship between land and body. The earth, like skin, is marked, scarred, and resilient, a living surface that requires time and care rather than constant intervention.
Hazbar resists the impulse to imagine speculative futures. Instead, she insists on a deeper return to the present, where reconnection with land and its overlooked processes may create more grounded possibilities for continuity. Through molding, immersion, and reconfiguration, she reveals architectures that emerge from within matter itself. Her work proposes art as a form of excavation and care, attuned to the fragile entanglement of nature, society, and time.