Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot work collaboratively to produce text, exhibitions and live events and take an interest in artists working with language. They have started non-profit galleries in both London and Berlin and have curated exhibitions in public institutions, project spaces and commercial galleries across London and internationally. These include The boys, the girls and the political at Lisson Gallery and projects at Auto Italia, Chelsea Space and The Whitechapel. Their recent Curators Series exhibition, The Season of Cartesian Weeping, at David Roberts Art Foundation (2019), presented artist collectives who explore the role language plays in maintaining a discrepant resistance to institutions. They often collaboratively produce text and have both written essays and criticism for a number of publications and journals. Forthcoming projects include exhibitions with Galerija Prozori and WHW Collective’s Galerija Nova, Zagreb.
Aside from their work together, Hana curated Lisson Presents at Lisson Gallery, London, from 2017 to 2018. From 2017 to 2019 she wrote, produced and presented the podcast series Lisson On Air. In 2018 she edited a monograph on the work of artist and Benedictine monk Dom Sylvester Houédard. Its release coincided with an exhibition of his work at Lisson Gallery, New York, which she co-curated with Matt O’Dell. Currently, Hana is a freelance writer and curator. In 2020, along with artist Tai Shani and curator Anne Duffau, started TRANSMISSIONS, an online platform that shares artists’ work in a classic DIY TV format. TRANSMISSIONS has worked with Legacy Russell, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, CAConrad and many other artists, writers and thinkers.
Lynton is a founding participant in OFFSHORE, an itinerant performance company and pedagogical structure, initiated by Cally Spooner in 2017. Through workshops, rehearsals and temporary schools, OFFSHORE develops real-time exercises, drafting new vocabulary and terms for organizing, working and performing. OFFSHORE has gathered at: NTU CCA Singapore; Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston; M-Museum, Leuven; La Fundición, Bilbao; Serpentine Gallery, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Centre for National Dance, Paris and The Swiss Institute, New York. In 2019, Lynton started parrhesiades, a multi-platform project working with artists for whom language- either written, spoke or otherwise performed- is an essential part of their work. Parrhesiades has worked with Sung Tieu, Johanna Hedva, Quinn Latimer and Anaïs Duplan and has forthcoming projects with P. Staff, Sophia Al Maria, Olamiju Fajemisin, Caspar Heinemann and others.
Hana and Lynton are currently co-editing Intertitles – an anthology at the intersection of language and visual art. This will be published by Prototype Press in April 2021.