Nicole
Zaaroura uses moving image, photography, performance as process,
writing and sound, to explore and question the corners of intimacy,
absence, private/public, slippage, border, encounter, and memory.
She has an BA and MA in Fine Art, and has exhibited in the UK,
Switzerland, Canada and Finland.
Her
practice spans across exhibiting, site responsive installations,
residencies, collaborations, performances, facilitating and
research. Her located work includes a crypt, a bridge, an experimental
underground space, public squares, and many city locations in
europe.
As
an artist and coordinator she has devised and delivered many
participatory projects using film and photography and has worked in
a variety of places including a prison, museums, and refugee
centres.
RECENT
PROJECTS
Responding
to a desire, or need to explore different locations and to work
site responsively, she created A BAREFOOT RESIDENCY, an eight month
experimental artist residency at St Johns Church, St Leonards on Sea.
As a continuing investigation and response to place, parameter,
quiet and disquiet, her body movement and space became inherent in a
moving image installation, and was shown as a solo show as part of
the Hastings Photo Festival programme 2014. A series of selected
video stills were sited on the bridge at Hastings station for
'Edge' 2014
In
2015 #THEINVITATIONPROJECT...'A FILM IN MY PURSE' , evolved as a
testbed research project that grew from this residency, and took her
across the Balkans by road, for a month, using site responsive
single untethered projections. These were 'performed' as a chain of
interruptions, in Mostar, Sarajevo, Tirana and Athens, and became
temporary skin grafts made of light in public places.
She
continues to test and explore...
#theinvitationproject
@barefoot_res1
