LETRA EXHIBITION
This body of work confronts the idea of bureaucracy and the role it plays in our lives, whether the contents are true or not. Centered around a drain (as seen in the video) where water is gathered, collected and travels somewhere else below ground. Aligning with the time when we buried grandmother in Albania, the works were created for transformation and the documentation became the process. The performance has been interpreted into video.
Nora’s practice takes the form of water, inspired by her aquatic travel to the UK as a baby, and by their undocumented identity as an Albanian. Nora intuitively works with organic materials gathered and foraged whilst travelling. These materials enter a recurring ritualistic process of hydration and dehydration. Algae, seaweed, sand, denim, clay, metal, bike parts, glass and bones are among the materials that appear in the work. The continuous camouflaged interrelations between geographies and bodies are explored through installations, writing, sculpture, video, sound, drawings and performance.