Where some photos show familiar dusty green carpets and smoke stained curtains, the next presents another type of common American interior \u2013 a room stacked with rifles. Nadia\u2019s confronting approach is no better represented than through weaponry; one standout image shows a handsome knife decorated with an American flag grip \u2013 cultural history and the implication of violence all in one.<\/p>\n
Blending the mundane with the quiet tension of American life, Nadia reinvents her own childhood through character study and a Hollywood movie lens. \u201cI remember the smell of bacon, coffee, or pizza depending on the time of day. Kids would be running around squealing,\u201d says Nadia. \u201cThe house was very much alive \u2013 there was a coziness to the chaos, and I was at the age where I found any kind of dispute or dysfunctionality exciting.\u201d Nadia\u2019s signature self-inserts feature alongside these carefully imagined scenes, transforming herself into a character that looks like a famous model who got lost in The Buckeye State.<\/p>\n
Designed to physically resemble a Bible, Holy Ohio observes the intricacies of America\u2019s rural heartland as well as the quiet temperance of Christian theology that connects the nation. In one image, a sign reads \u2018waterbeds \u2018n\u2019 stuff\u2019, speaking to the simple kitsch of rural consumer imagery, whilst in another, two men look into the distance whilst a giant dinosaur looms in the background, referencing America as something prehistoric, frozen in time or stuck in the past. Frequently showing photographs of the elderly, with dentures laid on tables and rooms that look like they\u2019ve been preserved at the edge of century, Nadia\u2019s bombastic and glossy style is scraped off here, revealing the true rust of memory and heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Where some photos show familiar dusty green carpets and smoke stained curtains, the next presents another type of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-311324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}