Núria Rovira Terradas

Núria (b.1999) is an artist from Catalonia working and living in England. Her work seeks to activate places and objects with sound and video. Recording, collecting, and returning, she looks for traces of unstable absences; fragments and gaps of what fails to remain or fails to disappear. Through site-specific interventions, the artwork sees itself at the service of the place; it wants to assist its imagination, listening to what’s pulsating below the surface to help an othered (disturbing, contradictory, forgotten, dreamt) version of itself to circulate outward. A brief passage for displaced grief and care, a fissure for a ‘what if’.

During her MFA, Núria’s work responds to two objects found at the Ruskin School of Art’s workshop: two bell ringing wheels, stored here by late professor Brian Catling in 2020. From the tower to the workshop, these objects echo with sound of 160 years of ringing bells and the unbeknownst imagination as an artwork never completed. Núria has tried to listen from these resonant spaces, using her work like an empty shell pressed to the ear, and where hearing failed, she has imagined.

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