Von Lintel Gallery | Los Angeles

In When Time Played Along, Bahar Kural reimagines the lightness of youth through the language of abstraction. The skies, seas, and shores of memory dissolve into bands of pure color — yellow, coral, turquoise — each one an emotion rather than a place, expressing how a day once felt rather than how it appeared.

By flattening the sky, mountains and sea into pure pigment, she strips away the familiar markers of place and time. Its youth remembered through the prism of time: heightened, simplified, and unreal in its perfection.

This series continues Kural's search for what lies between photography and painting, reality and reverie. The youth remain real and unguarded, alive with sunlit gesture — but the world around them becomes stylized and symbolic. It’s as if the emotional memory of the scene has overtaken the physical one. This tension between photographic realism and painterly abstraction mirrors how we actually recall childhood — fragments vivid, others blurred or re-colored by time.

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