Nora Turato

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Nora Turato
Born1991
Zagreb, Croatia
Education Gerrit Rietveld Academy,
ArtEZ University of Arts
Occupation(s)Graphic designer, installation artist, performance artist

Nora Turato (born 1991) is a Croatian graphic designer, installation and performance artist, based in Amsterdam. She is known for her works around everyday linguistic usage which are then enlarged and imprinted onto exhibition walls. Turato's scripts are composed of texts appropriated from Facebook, internet forums, print media and literature. [1]

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Career

Turato was born in Zagreb, Croatia and moved to Amsterdam in 2009. [2] She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam from 2009 till 2013 and at the Typography Workplace (part of ArtEZ University of Arts) in Amsterdam from 2014 till 2016. [3] She also studied at the Residency at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten van Amsterdam from 2017 till 2019. [4] Her work has been included in various exhibitions (see Exhibition).

Work

what is dead may never die is a spoken-word performance piece hosted at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam from the 28th to the 31st of October 2021. The spoken-word performance consists of a rehearsed script that Turato performs with changing rhythm and tonality. The script reflects on the year 2021 and repeats phrases coined in contemporary culture, ranging from political statements to the Kardashians. [5]

pool 5 combines bookmaking and performance and assembles pools of text into a script, performed by Turato. Themes range from entertainment to politics to sex. The work is composed of five books presenting texts without order or logic. The artist sees the pools as “annual reports” as stated in an interview with Ana Janevski of Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). pool 5 is an expansion of pool 4, which was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [6]

ri-mEm-buhr THuh mUHn-ee was an art piece that Turato performed in the Secession Building in Vienna in 2021 - 2022. For this piece, Turato produced a new sound installation formed from her research done on the politics of accents and Western media. Her upbringing in the shadow of the Soviet era, in which Western media was consumed in large numbers but the phonetics, nuance and meaning were often lost in translation. The audio consists of Turato mimicking the sound of Western accents, compulsively trying to get the right tone and articulation. [7] The sound installation was exhibited at the Secession building from November 20, 2021, till February 20, 2022. [8]

Exhibitions

Nora Turato's work has been featured in various exhibitions among which:

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Performances

Publications [3]

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References

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