IN SITU #1
Nora Turato — I hear you, I hear you.
Exhibition — Ongoing
The Stedelijk is launching IN SITU, a new series in the mezzanine of the new building. A new generation of artists has been commissioned to create experimental works for one of the museum's largest intermediate spaces. Nora Turato inaugurates the series with a video and sound installation that examines how we use language and how language influences our identity and ways of communicating.
Language plays a central role in Nora Turato's work. The artist collects texts from seemingly banal sources: emails and WhatsApp messages, social media posts, YouTube tutorials, online lectures, museum texts, advertisements, conversations overheard in restaurants. Turato deconstructs this endless flow of messages and uses it to shape her own narrative. Her work spans multiple disciplines, including performances, books, videos, murals, and 2D-works.
For her new work on the mezzanine, Turato examines the impact of language on our self-image, expression, and identity—from how we learn to speak as children to how we constantly adopt the words of others. By combining language and typography, she questions how much control we truly have over how we communicate. For her site-specific work, Turato is developing a custom-made typeface and a script for her own monumental moving billboard. She explores how rhythm, pronunciation, design, and typography influence the power, ambience and character of language.
The exhibition by Nora Turato, created for the IN SITU series, is generously supported by Ammodo, the Mondriaan Fund and the Stichting Niemeijer Fonds.
