According to today’s global tendencies of separatism, nationalism, and xenophobia, I am motivated to explore a perverse approach to identity loss and subsequent pursuit of ideological affiliation. I create art installations with inspiration from theatre aesthetics and rhetoric in today’s identity politics.

The exhibition project consists of two main parts. 1) An installation of TelePrompters, a theatre prop in today’s public speeches in the media-based and political spheres. 2) A photo series of actors preparing; behind the stage, in the makeup room, in hallways and waiting rooms, minutes before entering the stage and perform.

“In the case of Nordby, we can imagine the theatre as a visual field that can place our role-plays in a location where suppressed aspects of life’s theatricality return to an experience of ‘not being able to act the part,’ and thereby also a return of the void in the symbolic drama we are usually so wrapped up in.” 
Kjetil Røed, Art Critic.

“In the exhibition space, Nordby lets teleprompter-texts with good advice on how to obtain a persuasive behavior scroll before our eyes. We also catch actors in the space between the person they are and the character they will soon embody - much like the dichotomy between private and public selves. Nordby invokes a notion of expectancy about a performance about to happen.” 
Hanna G. Hattrem, Art Historian.