Núria (b.1999) is an artist from Catalonia working in England. Her work seeks to activate places and objects with sound and video. Situated in site, the artist records, collects, and returns. She’s looking for traces. A flickering fluorescent light, the note of a broken instrument, an empty snail shell. Unstable absences. Fragments and gaps of what fails to remain, or what fails to disappear. The work wants to awaken them. Make them tremble, make them glimmer. Sound and projected light are appropriate mediums for this: they operate like layers, draping over what’s already there, taking its shape, channeling its voice, but importantly, without embodying. Empty space is not erased.
In these interventions, the artwork sees itself at the service of the setting its embedded in. Its role is to assist its imagination. Listening to what’s pulsating underneath, to help an othered (disturbing, contradictory, forgotten, dreamt) version of itself circulate outward. Displaced feelings are welcomed there. Losses too vast for grief or bodies too small for care, memories of strangers or familiarity of unknown places, beliving art as fissures of 'what if’.