Kristina Sergeeva at Seeing Things
Talin Hazbar (b. 1988, Syria) is a visual artist and architect based in the United Arab Emirates. Her practice investigates natural materials as vessels of memory and transformation, moving between fragility and resilience, disappearance and re-emergence. Working with sand, coral, clay, and stone, she draws out narratives where geological time and cultural history converge, revealing how matter itself carries the traces of both endurance and change.
Hazbar views art as an act of excavation and care. In her practice, material becomes both witness and mediator, preserving the memory of time while opening new possibilities for continuity and transformation. Trained in architecture, Hazbar has developed a transdisciplinary approach that bridges design, ecology, and material research. She has participated in leading residency programs including the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2014), the dieDAS Fellowship Program, Farming Materials’ Ecologies, Saaleck, Germany (2020), and the AlUla Residency, Oasis Reborn, Saudi Arabia (2021–2022).
Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions and biennials such as Art Basel Paris (2024), the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation (2022), the NGV Architecture Triennial at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2020), Louvre Abu Dhabi (2018), Noor Riyadh (2023), the Qatar Museums Biennale Arab Design Now (2024), the Al Shindagha Museum (2019), and Sèvres Gallery, Paris (2019).