Nora Aurrekoetxea Etxebarria ES
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my studio based practice departs from a sculptural way of building installations
as a relational space,
a system where unpredicted dialogues happen in interdependency between
architecture
objects
and bodies
creating layers of meaning
where everything alters and interrelates with each other
being the instability of narratives
the structure of it.
leading workshops and text based exercises allow me to reach a horizontal and collaborative way of sharing, questioning and experimenting with language within a particular group as a methodology.
I am particularly intrigued by questions related to emotional aspects of human interactions in the intimate sphere,
love and desire. I use experiences in an auto-ethnographical way as a raw material to explore the personal and the collective with wider cultural, political and social meanings.
I depart unexpectedly from
a life event
a love letter
a fetish
an intuition
a desire
I develop the work through its materiality and form,
trying to reach its own autonomy,
following the process and embracing the accident,
even if the narrative emerges later or in parallel.
I often choose objects related to the body, or with the absence of it,
looking for tension and balance between hard, quotidian building materials and delicate, intimate ones
concrete and velvet fabric
dried flowers on rusty metal
linguistic, material and relational aspects force encounters and / or mismatches between the experiential and emotional and the physical and the objectual
an inner tension emerges in this process
a thing that is still being born and is only recognisable
by an active listening of the making
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