Political statements merge with Kardshian quotes while marketing reports infiltrate Instagram affirmations in the topsy-turvy linguist world of artist Nora Turato. The Amsterdam-based performance artist and graphic designer is to the modern world as a stenographer is to a court case; a collector of expressions, phrases, and conversations, stripped of artifice and presented back to the public for interpretation.

One of the most exciting new voices to emerge on the contemporary art scene, Turato takes words and puts them into non-allegorical contexts—further extracting and abstracting meaning to reappraise the audience’s relationship with language, and thus the power structures that underpin it.

Turato collects and regurgitates platitudes with passion—she also pastes them, billboard-sized, on the walls of exhibitions or prints them as posters and in books. Whatever the medium Turato chooses, her searing linguistic potpourri offers no easy escape. Her word-based performances, delivered at dizzying speed, are a mirror that reflects the banalities that plague everyday language.

Nora Turato is represented by LambdaLambadLambda (Pristina, Brussels) and Galerie Gregor Staiger (Zurich), who will present her work in the Nova sector at Art Basel Miami Beach 2021.

‘Nora Turato’ is on view at Secession, Vienna, from November 20, 2021 to January 23, 2022