[1][2] She is most noted for her projects Spoken Objects: Reweaving Fractures and Ghosts (2022), Troubled Garden: Study for Migratory Roots (2021), Other Landscapes (2019–2020), It Looks Nice from a Distance (2017–2020), and One Hundred Cypresses (2013).
[7] Norouzi's practice is research-driven, focusing on marginalized histories and the legacies of botanical explorations and archeological excavations, particularly when scientific research became entangled in the colonial exploitation of non-Western geographies.
[17] This project examines the legacies of botanical explorations, when scientific research and agricultural production became entangled in the exploitation of non-Western geographies, shaping cultural attitudes towards the human and non-human “other.”[18] Originating in Southwest Asia and known in the artist's ancestral homeland of Iran as Heracleum persicum (Persian hogweed), the plant spread to the West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through European colonial interventions, trade routes, and Western interest in acquiring “exotic” species.
[26][27] Other Landscapes (2020) is multi-part project that stems from Norouzi's long-term research interest in the cross sections of botany and colonial politics, experiences of immigration and displacement, as well as issues of identity and memory.
[24] By using her body and its materiality, with the histories and geographies that determine it, this trilogy calls for an active participation of individuals in the process of preserving what they identify with in the era of decay.