Noura Tafeche
A Stratigraphy of Vision
Performance-lecture
17 June 2026 at 7 PM
Aksioma | Project Space, Ljubljana
In a world saturated with conflicting visual stimuli and characterized by an ever-shrinking attention span, visual artist and researcher Noura Tafeche invites us to reflect on which images truly deserve our attention. She does so by developing a discourse around a single 3D architectural rendering taken from the extensive visual output of NEOM, the smart city and special economic zone—not yet built in the province of Tabuk—which constitutes the central element of Saudi Arabia’s “Vision 2030” and its post-oil diversification program.
In the lecture-performance A Stratigraphy of Vision, premiered at the aksioma project space, Tafeche guides us through the stratigraphy of the chosen image, revealing layer by layer what the image seeks to conceal. Beneath its seductive, meticulously produced architectural splendor—often structurally implausible—lies a carefully engineered opacity that disciplines perception and prepares acceptance rather than describing reality.
THE AUTHOR
Noura Tafeche is a visual artist, onomaturge and independent researcher working in between installations, videos, neologisms, archiving practices, laboratories, experimental applied methodologies and miniature drawings. Her areas of research expand on the subjects of visual culture and its techno-political implications with a focus on operational images, digital militarism, online aesthetics, internet hyper-niches and meme culture, philosophy of language and visual representation of speculative imaginaries. She has exhibited internationally in various contexts, including at Pirelli Hangar Biccoca, Tainan Art Museum and transmediale.
CREDITS
Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2026