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Nora Turato, pool7, 2025 (still). Image courtesy of the artist.
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In arresting live performances, Nora Turato channels the defining currents of shared culture today. Her work culls from the language of the zeitgeist and rehearses its cadences and variances with a resolute devotion to picking out the subtexts, failures, and pleasures in communication. Commanding an audience alone on stage, in often hour-long monologues that have been committed to memory, her performances are a study in tone, pitch, delivery and gesture.
Over two dates, Turato presents an all-new performance which forms part of her solo exhibition at ICA. This newest work is stripped down and raw; Turato enacts pool7 on the level of her body and voice.
With this work, Turato confronts a collective disembodiment, a cultural obsession with surface image that disregards the body and emotion. Reflexive and guttural responses – such as cries, screams or sobs – are incorporated alongside Turato’s original writing, tapping into reactions we suppress with age and conditionally reserve for exceptional pain, danger, grief or ecstasy. In pool7 she introduces an improvised way of shaping the performance, deviating from its script-based predecessors.
To find out more about the exhibition click here.
Over two dates, Turato presents an all-new performance which forms part of her solo exhibition at ICA. This newest work is stripped down and raw; Turato enacts pool7 on the level of her body and voice.
With this work, Turato confronts a collective disembodiment, a cultural obsession with surface image that disregards the body and emotion. Reflexive and guttural responses – such as cries, screams or sobs – are incorporated alongside Turato’s original writing, tapping into reactions we suppress with age and conditionally reserve for exceptional pain, danger, grief or ecstasy. In pool7 she introduces an improvised way of shaping the performance, deviating from its script-based predecessors.
To find out more about the exhibition click here.
About the artist
Nora Turato (b.1991 Zagreb, Croatia) is an artist based in Amsterdam, NL. The breadth of Turato’s work encompasses text-based installations, prints, books and performances, placing language as the central anchor of her practice. Turato’s work often weaves in collected language, as well as original text, channelling the constant stream of material into an original narrative she deconstructs and shapes through her multifaceted practice. Working within periodic cycles referred to as ‘pools’, Turato reflects on particular current cultural and societal tendencies, specifically, the language and zeitgeist that define these shifts. Turato’s series of artist books – also titled pools – accompany each cycle, with Turato likening them to ‘annual reports’ of the compiled text and language of that year.
Recent solo exhibitions include Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2024), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2024), Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles (2024), Sprüth Magers, Berlin (2023), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2022), Secession, Vienna (2021), MGLC: International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (2020), Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (2020), Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2019), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2019) and Beursschouwburg, Brussels (2019). Turato has participated in numerous group exhibitions at MUDAM, Luxembourg (2024), TANK, Shanghai (2023), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2022), Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2022), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2021), amongst others. Turato unveiled a large-scale public art installation at Art on the Mart, Chicago in the spring of 2024. In 2023, Turato produced a commissioned performance for the Performa Biennial in New York.
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07:00 pm
Thu, 05 Jun 2025
Stage
07:00 pm
Fri, 06 Jun 2025
Stage
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Thursday 5 June, 7pm
& Friday 6 June, 7pm
ICA Stage
£15
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