Hayal Pozanti: A Dream That Rhymed With Mine

Timothy Taylor is pleased to present A Dream That Rhymed With Mine, a solo exhibition of new works by Hayal Pozanti in London. Bringing together paintings and works on paper made over the past year, the presentation marks Pozanti’s second solo exhibition in the UK and her third with the gallery.

Over the past decade, Pozanti has developed a distinctive formal language of biomorphic abstraction, translating her experience of the natural world into a vocabulary entirely her own. Working with oil stick and oil pastel directly on canvas and blending pigment by hand, she builds forms that shift fluidly between flower, body, and current, resisting fixed identity in favour of continuous transformation. Rather than depict nature, Pozanti renders its feeling—an impulse inspired in part by Surrealism, with its dreams and its drive to invent new worlds.

In creating these paintings, Pozanti draws from the working of a flower itself, which weaves disparate forms of life into partnership, connecting soil microbes and fungi below with the work of pollinating insects and birds above. Her own paintings, she suggests, work the same way—as places where forces ordinary and spiritual meet.