Turato’s latest debut exhibition, text ‘pool’, a three-part installation of text, video and audio work.
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London is proud to present the first solo exhibition in the UK by Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato (b. 1991, Zagreb). Taking place across the ICA’s Lower Galleries and Concourse, pool7 features a site-specific exhibition of newly commissioned work spanning performance, writing, graphic design, video and sound. With this exhibition, Turato introduces new experimental work in an ambitious project that is the artist’s most personal to date.
In recent years, Nora Turato has established herself as one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary art. Throughout her work across performance, installation, graphic design, publishing and video, Turato investigates our collective relationship to language and the everyday forms we rely on for communication and self-expression. The artist returns to the ICA having previously performed as part of Image Behaviour (2019), a season dedicated to experiments in artists’ moving image.
At yearly intervals, Turato creates text ‘pools’, collections of found language she gathers and samples from a range of sources such as media headlines, conversations with friends, books, advertising, overheard speech and online content. Through bold, graphic installations and commanding solo performances the artist mines this found language to expose the absurdities, ideologies and pleasures that characterise communication today. Turato has explored the anxiety-ridden language of the wellness industry, channelled a slippery salesman, and highlighted the disembodied voices of the internet and advertising. A sharp-sighted mirror, Turato’s work deftly reveals the ineffable qualities of the zeitgeist.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a full calendar of public events, including an artist talk, performance dates and workshops.
General booking will be available from 10am on Tuesday 11 February.
- Nora Turato: pool7: 9 April – 8 June 2025
- Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
- Tuesday – Thursday: 4 – 9pm
Friday – Sunday: 12 – 9pm - £6 full price / £4 concession/ Members Free
- Tickets: ICA | Institute of Contemporary Arts
- Further Information: ICA | Nora Turato: pool7