Koyivettil
Pendant by Nadia Nazar
Year:
2024
Materials:
Bronze
Dimensions:
2 × 2 × 0.5 in
Notable Techniques:
Lost wax casting
Featured In:
Vitrine Exhibition Summer 2025
Photograph: J Diamond
Nadia Nazar (b. 2002, Baltimore, MD) is a sculptor, animator, musician, organizer, and teacher. She was born and raised in Baltimore County, but calls Kerala, India her homeland. Her work delves into her relationship with the residual impact of colonization, including the physical and systemic structures that have exploited both the land and (her) people. She employs animation, sculpture, and sound to explore her matrilineal relationships, history, and the fight for liberation. Metal structures stand in relation to the land on which Nadia resides, and the land her body comes from under the equator sun. The steel scrolls, gates, braids, cyanotype blues, and rust are not only reminiscent of her grandmothers’ homes, but fill space as a child of diaspora reaching for a liberation that feels uncanny and solitary all at once.
Learn more about Nadia Nazar here.
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