Cemre Nomer – These Shoes Are Made for Wobbling – 2026

Cemre Nomer is a Turkish multidisciplinary artist. In 2021, she received her contemporary arts diploma from édhéa – École de Design et Haute École d’Art du Valais. Cemre now lives and works in northern Switzerland and curates “Espace Formaline” in Suhr (Kanton Aargau). She also is a member of the cultural commission in the Suhr municipality. Her practice is by default versatile and socially engaged. Themes such as virtuality and identity creates the base of her work. Contemporary public’s stance towards art is consequential in Cemre’s practice by establishing a connection with her spectators in a direct manner and incorporating them in her works.

About These Shoes Are Made for Wobbling :

The word Shoe as we know it came to be from the Old English word Scōh, which meant cover. Similarly to wrapping or coating, the act of covering designates an envy of hiding something (Or depending of the context, someone), ultimately assuming a strong enough unsaid emotion to take that said thing out of collective vision.
In These Shoes Are Made For Wobbling there are in total three visible objects in the frame; one singular high heeled shoe used commonly by sex workers from the brand Pleaser, and two small empty vials of Mounjaro®, a well-known industry giant weight loss drug. The shoe is balanced from the heel and the sole on top of the two glass vials. The work aims to ask questions on the exploitation of women and sex workers, the contemporary definitions of beauty , the weaponisation of these said definitons against women and the rebranding of sexism in social media. What is it this exact unsaid feeling that makes women want to take themselves out of collective vision, and where does it come from?

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