
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.