Courtesy of the artist and Experimenter Gallery. Photo by Leonie Hugendubel.
Aziz Hazara
Born in 1992, Wardak, Afghanistan
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany, Kabul, Afghanistan
Overview
Aziz Hazara (b.1992), lives and works between Berlin and Kabul. Aziz Hazara often employs sound as a medium to signify both conflict and the collective. In Takbir (2022), silence and sound, darkness and light, operate as metaphorical devices in a transfixing nexus. The camera shifts into a steady, almost nauseating circular motion, causing city lights to dissolve into a trail of light calling out to infinity as resounding cries of Takbir (which describes the call Allāhu Akbar/God is great) emerg...Read more