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"The third title in the Clarion series features Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato and her vibrant enamel panels that magnify the omnipresence of text, design, and speech in our contemporary culture. ---------- ""Meticulous as Helen and tricky as Odysseus, the artist invites us first to misread the slick surfaces and humor of her works as effortless, then forces us to attend to the laborious practices they belie, the histories and possibilities of that effort."" - Art in America ---------- Originally trained as a graphic designer, Nora Turato adapts text to subvert and create messages. Although many of Turato's performances and works appear to be drafted by free association, she meticulously and thoughtfully edits them to evoke a sense of alluring confusion. In three signature murals with a bespoke typeface, Turato addresses the inundation of language, typography, and graphic design in our contemporary culture, whether in the news, on social media, or in advertisements. Published on the occasion of Turato's widely popular exhibition govern me harder at 52 Walker, this publication features texts by Ebony L. Haynes and Anna Kats. Serving as an extension of the exhibition, performance scripts by the artist are also included in this publication. As described in The Brooklyn Rail, ""In the slick sea of graphic smoothness and language lost from meaning, something has still been irrefutably made."""

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graphically dazzling exhibition... -- The New Yorker Although Turato's works have a commercially slick appearance, they were stencilled and painted by hand--perhaps it's that arduous process that lends her open-ended found phrases their strangely intimate, incantatory quality. -- The New Yorker In Turato's world, print and performance are an inseparable and insufferable couple with words between them. -- Cultured Magazine Meticulous as Helen and tricky as Odysseus, the artist invites us first to misread the slick surfaces and humor of her works as effortless, then forces us to attend to the laborious practices they belie, the histories and possibilities of that effort. -- Art in America No artist dominated New York this spring quite like Nora Turato. -- ARTnews Torato shows us how language can be expanded outside coherency, finding its own freedom. -- Cura Magazine Treating words as found objects or sculptural material, Turato paints decontextualized snippets of language -- culled from sources including social media posts and exhibition press releases -- onto multipart steel panels or directly onto the gallery wall. -- Hyperallergic We are living in an inter-textual world, Turato seems to wink at us, and she is an intertextual girl. -- Homme Girls govern me harder asks us about the health of our tools for making and conveying meaning, and particularly how we might salvage and restore the unique potency of words to communicate novelty rather than reproduce ever-glossier iterations of something we have seen before. -- The Brooklyn Rail

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"Nora Turato was born in 1991 in Zagreb, Croatia, and presently lives and works in Amsterdam. The artist received her BFA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, in 2013, and her MFA from Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem, the Netherlands, in 2016. Ebony L. Haynes is a writer and curator from Toronto. She is based in New York, where she is a director at David Zwirner. Haynes has previously held positions as visiting curator and critic at Yale School of Art in the Painting and Printmaking program, and director at Martos Gallery and Shoot The Lobster NY & LA. Haynes sits on the boards of Artists Space and the New Art Dealers Alliance. She also runs an online ""school"" that offers free professional practice classes to Black students worldwide. Anna Kats is a PhD candidate in the History of Architecture at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, where her research considers the global proliferation of socialist art and architectural production after World War II."

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