Sodobna umetnost (Aljoša Abrahamsberg),
10. november 2020
― Eto ti na je prva slovenska predstavitev v Amsterdamu živeče umetnice Nore Turato. Naslov je buzzword v hrvaščini – stalna besedna zveza, ki jo pogosto uporabljamo, sama pa nima posebnega pomena – in povzema Norin specifični odnos do jezika. Njeni performansi, knjige, murali, plakati in videi premlevajo iz različnih kontekstov iztrgane povedi ter jih mešajo v eklektične pastiše. Jezikovni fragmenti popularne in visoke kulture, oglaševanja, znanosti bolj zvenijo, kot pomenijo, vibrirajo v Norinih glasnih performativnih izvedbah, pisanih stenskih poslikavah in energičnih tipografijah njenih prostorskih postavitev brez nostalgije po svojem izgubljenem kontekstu. Izkušnja razstave in performansov Nore Turato je zato blizu konzumiranju jezika v digitalni dobi: potopljenosti v množico dražljajev, ki nas bolj zadevajo, kot nagovarjajo. Kurator razstave je Vladimir Vidmar. Eto ti na is the first Slovenian presentation by the Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato. The title is a Croatian catchphrase – a frequently used standard saying without any special meaning – that sums up Turato’s specific attitude towards language. Her performances, books, murals, posters and videos ruminate on the sentences torn from different contexts, fusing them into eclectic pastiches. The linguistic fragments taken from popular and high culture, advertising and science, have more sound to them than meaning, they vibrate in Nora’s loud performative executions, colourful murals and the energetic typographies of her spatial layouts without any nostalgia over their lost context. The experience of Nora Turato’s exhibition and performance therefore comes close to consuming language in the digital age: the immersion in a multitude of stimuli that concern us more than they address us. Curator of exhibition is Vladimir Vidmar.