NURIA MORA
Canang

Martina Corbetta_Via Milano, 98. Giussano (MB)
7.09.2022 – 30.11.2022

Nuria Mora (Madrid 1974) began her artistic career in the late 90s. A female pioneer of street art and mural painting, she soon distinguished herself for her furtive interventions, ranging across different media and multiple surfaces. Painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, installation, light and sound. She studied Interior Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid. The pictorial signs in many cities around the world are recognizable. Geometric abstraction takes shape in public spaces, galleries and private homes. Nuria Mora uses her plastic language to talk about memory, build and recompose memories, and trace personal cartographies of travels and experiences.

The Canang exhibition is a project that traces its roots back to 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Nuria Mora, after being selected to participate in the Noa Noa Art Residency, created a real land art intervention during her Indonesian adventure: she placed 150kg of flower petals along the walkway of a rice field until it reached more than 1.5 km in length. Canang in Balinese is the daily offering made by Hindus to thank Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa in praise and prayer. Canang, in the form of small baskets, is found in Balinese temples, small shrines, in homes and on the streets. And it is precisely the repetition of this image that leads Nuria to develop her installation. Following an unfortunate motorbike accident during her first days on the island, the artist is called to give thanks for being alive by making her great offering: the extraordinary Canang. In the exhibition, through a video from above made in Bali by means of a drone and through photographs, it will be possible to see the entire performance. From this significant and emotional work comes the desire to bring a larger project to Italy, to make Nuria Mora, her sensitivity and her artistic work known. And it is by imagining to summarize the artist, that, three are the key words: travel, nature and color. Each of Nuria’s works is born from an experience. From an emotion, from a look, from an impulse. If Canang is the opportunity to tell who Nuria Mora is, it will be the works on display that will define her personality.