My art is immaterial and is part of a quest to exist in the world, where exchange defines the experience and enlists a presence to generate dialogue, associations, and ultimately, communication.

The notion of hospitality is also at the heart of my multidisciplinary practice, situated in the interstices between the museum and public space. It unfolds in performative installations that include movement and active participation in real time and in social space.

Exploring various themes, including societal repression, my projects are often the result of research related to the site's responsive aspects and the public with whom I interact. As a feminist artist, I act as an intermediary to probe the relationships between desire and exchange that shape identities, their representation and their perception.

Some of my projects mobilise references to art history and conceptual strategies borrowed from sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, video, performance, interventions and multimedia. These performative installations continue to engage in an inversion of the subject/object relationship through inclusive approaches to exchange that reinforce the autonomy of participants with each other and with the environment.

My sculptural installations utilising organic and ephemeral materials, question the value of the object in relation to the sociocultural and aesthetic meanings of space, temporality, and transcendence.

Nadine Norman’s artwork literally disappears after (and often during), their presentation. What remains is their visual documentation and the participants’ fleeting memory of encounter.
— Joanne Lalonde