Nina Turok Shapiro
AVA Exhibitions: Tell me about a day you don’t remember (Group Show) 26.06.25 - 31.07.25
Nina Turok Shapiro (b. 2000, South Africa) is a Cape Town-based artist who works predominantly with silk-screen printing and photography. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2023, majoring in printmedia.
Shapiro explores nostalgia and memory in relation to her experience as a second- generation South African in the Jewish diaspora. She reimagines her family archives through performative photography, silk-screen printing, video art, and colour selection.
From the silence of previous diasporic generations emerges a vacuum in the archive. Much is left to the imagination in the interpretation of ancestral personal experiences. Shapiro’s praxis emerges as an attempt to navigate the liminality intrinsic to a diasporic identity – an identity that is intertwined with the enigmatic histories and cultures of her ancestors, together with the artist’s contemporary experiences in modern-day South Africa.
Instagram: @ninaturokshapiro
