Sarah Rapson
ODE TO PSYCHE
20. November 2021 – 23. Januar 2022

The artworks of an upcoming exhibition in the Secession’s basement will have been created primarily somewhere between the London homes of Sigmund Freud and John Keats. Sarah Rapson, whose practice has recently been described as a form of “romantic conceptualism,” grew up in North London in the 1960s and 1970s, moved to New York in the 1980s, and returned to England decades later, where she continues to edit her material.

Nora Turato
ri-mEm-buhr THuh mUHn-ee
20. November 2021 – 23. Januar 2022

Nora Turato explores the fragility of language in today’s media landscapes in sonorous spoken word performances and typographic works crafted from found textual material. Language from books, advertising, social media, and everyday conversations is appropriated and incorporated into performance texts and visual art works ranging from murals and videos to artist books and posters.

She performs her performances with a seemingly impulsive and unplanned urgency that can obscure the elaborate research and rehearsal that underlie each. She currently produces two performances of about 20 minutes each per year, which allows her to absorb current trends, idioms, and linguistic patterns proliferating in the media, and to address the cultural and political issues of the day. She uses her voice, characterized by great range and flexibility, with variously changing pitches and sentence melodies, intensities and emotional expressive qualities to create moving theatrical effects.