Bio

Nora Schreiber is currently pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Tyler, where she received her Master of Arts in the Spring of 2019. She is a mixed media and video artist with a focus in installation work. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Tyler in 2017. Schreiber has shown her work throughout Tyler, Texas, and in multiple shows across the United States of America.


Artist Statement

 There are many days that I wake from a haze of the comatose daily life and ground myself with the space surrounding me and the objects also occupying that environment. I can then discern who I should be, what I am doing, what this particular day is for, and my identity. These episodes created a curiosity in me to find how far reaching outside influences like traditions, language, objects, and spaces are in control of my life. I have realized there was much enclosing me that I rarely considered. I want to investigate what exists within me and have a healthy pondering of its importance. Reading through the way others have thought about their specifically post-structuralism, I have gained even more clarity. There cannot be blind obedience to even the names of the objects, language, nor the space itself. We have been gifted, down through generations a fragile acceptance of what is creating reality, traditions. Who is the master? Twisting, re-contextualizing, and giving theatrics to materials allows me to give a physical presence to my curiosities. An easy way to contradict convention is to manipulate the ideas and thoughts of others that been injected into our daily lives. This is why I choose to contort, destruct, and stitch back together the frozen moments of every day. I can play pretend and allow my inner debate to wrangle these special compositions, videos, and objects and create a new experience. These works are the responsive and independent efforts that keep my hands busy as I digest this world around me. This exhibition is my interpretation of the world.  I aim not to contradict the generations nor speak out about the number of fallacies of traditions I have found, I am aiming to merely entice the questions that allow for deeper inquisitions and then follow these discoveries. This work began as a personal experience, and has extend to how I believe others around me can also understand reality and what surrounds us all. I am begging for the audience to have curiosity of the world around them. I believe this is important work, even more so know with the a pandemic distorting and changing the world. The uncertain times have created a lucky example of what I have been creating work to speak out about. Perhaps, now more will be able to understand why they too should wake from their daily routine’s haze.