Nelly Matorina

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“My earliest memory is of a dream.”
Anne Carson, Every Exit is an Entrance (A Praise of Sleep)
Nelly Matorina is an artist working across moving image and installation. Her practice explores memory through two intersecting threads. The first considers how connection persists across the distance of migration through mediated forms of communication and dreams. Arranging landscapes and interior spaces into layered environments, she traces the uneven attachments of migration, where certain places remain charged while others feel provisional, and where ritual holds open the possibility of return. The second approaches memory through artistic research, informed by her background in cognitive neuroscience, exploring how memories are structured, formed, and reshaped over time. Her works treat installation as a method of inquiry, using multi-channel video and spatial composition to think through complex systems. Across both threads, her practice brings waking and dream states into conversation with one another.