Aziz Hazara turns war waste into portrait of sanctions at SculptureCenter
Tonnes of discarded war material are the starting point for Aziz Hazara's new solo exhibition, Coming Home, at SculptureCenter.
The show opened on 19 September and runs until 28 December 2026. It has been described as a portrait of life under sanctions, in reporting published on 24 September 2026 ARTnews.
Hazara was born in 1992 in Wardak, Afghanistan. He is an interdisciplinary artist, meaning he works across different forms, including photography, video, sound and multimedia, according to SculptureCenter SculptureCenter.
Coming Home centres on material left behind at Bagram Airfield after the abrupt withdrawal of American forces. The project seeks to return that discarded material, as listed by the venue e-flux.
In the show, Hazara traces tonnes of war rubbish back through the machinery of supply, consumption and disposal. The focus is not on battlefields. It is on what armies buy, use and throw away, and what that waste leaves behind for the people who live with it.
SculptureCenter is presenting the exhibition alongside two other solo shows, by Cevdet Erek and Yining Fei. The three exhibitions share an opening reception at the venue.
What makes this stand out for a general viewer is the scale of the leftovers. Rubbish sounds small. Here it is huge, heavy and counted by the tonne, and Hazara follows its route step by step. For fans, this means a show built from familiar stuff — packaging, scrap, broken equipment — put together to tell a larger story about sanctions and everyday life after war.
