There Is No Urgency Here: A Study in Stillness

Unveiled at Paris Photo this November, Tala Hajjar’s limited-edition artist book There Is No Urgency Here invites viewers into a world where time loosens its grip and the quietest gestures take center stage. Composed of seven photographs accompanied by a poem by the artist and a foreword by Rabih Kayrouz, the work lingers in the spaces between moments; those pauses where stillness becomes its own form of narrative, and the ordinary reveals a subdued, contemplative beauty.

Handcrafted and produced in a limited edition of ten, the piece is housed in a box and booklet designed and fabricated by -scope Ateliers. Its tactile presence, intimate scale, and restrained elegance echo the book’s thematic core: slowness, attention, and the quiet poetry of the everyday. There Is No Urgency Here is not simply an art object but an invitation to pause, to look closer, and to inhabit time differently.