Discover the Nora Turato Exhibition 'ri-mEm-buhr THuh mUHn-ee' at Secession

This exhibition by Nora Turato, titled 'ri-mEm-buhr THuh mUHn-ee,' explores her artistic practice of condensing internet language into performances and visual works. The exhibition features a new sound installation reflecting on accents, subjectivity, and childhood memories from the Soviet era.

Nora Turato is renowned for her ability to distill the textual peculiarities of the internet and new media into her art, transforming appropriated language from books, advertising, social media, and everyday entertainment into resonant performance scripts and visual works. These include murals, videos, artist books, and posters. Her performances, delivered with a seemingly impulsive urgency that belies extensive research, average two per year, allowing her to capture current trends and linguistic patterns, engaging with contemporary cultural and political themes. Turato utilizes her voice's vast range and flexibility with shifting tones, intonations, intensities, and emotional expressions to create theatrical effects. Her visual art, influenced by her graphic design background, features striking typographic solutions that echo the messages of her spoken performances and advertising slogans. She adeptly moves between formats, from small artist books to billboard-sized wall works, without compromising artistic quality. For her exhibition at the Secession, Turato created a new sound installation based on her research into the politics of accents and Western media. This work delves into a new field for the artist: her own subjectivity and childhood in the shadow of the Soviet era, a time when Western media was eagerly consumed, but phonetics, nuances, and meanings were often lost in translation. The audio work features Turato imitating the sounds of Western speech forms, obsessively attempting to capture the correct intonation and articulation of numerous English accents. 'ri-mEm-buhr THuh mUHn-ee' can be understood as a sonic study of the artist's growing vocal arsenal. Through her long-standing engagement with the spoken word, Turato has built an internal archive of accents, dialects, and idiolects, which she deftly alternates and echoes in a séance of voices.

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