All Orchids Are Fine by Nadiya I. Nacorda

Issue 150

My outward perceived identity shifts depending on where I am. I constantly occupy a multilayered and dimensional space in regards to my identity. I own, within myself and my work, that identity is never fixed and capable of true definition.

Nadiya I. Nacorda works in photography, video, and performance to address matters of intimacy, affection and identity, as a child of immigrants and political refugees. In her practice, she draws upon her lived experience and family history to visually articulate notions of Blasian feminine interiority, motherhood, and matriarchy, within the context of domestic life. She engages in multiple photographic modes through the use of vernacular family photos of the past and contemporary portraits, alongside dreamy and playful images that speak to her own subjective internal space as she grapples with questions of selfhood and autonomy as a Blasian woman and a new mother herself. Through a dynamic photographic dialogue between three generations of women that spans 80 years and three continents, Nadiya complicates the assumed linearity of generational lines, suggesting a nuance that is both cyclical and reverberating.

Nadiya I. Nacorda lives and works in Richmond, VA.
www.nadiyanacorda.com | @nadiya_nacorda

Images © Nadiya I. Nacorda