paradigm shift
Chimera 1. a thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve. Chimera is a working reflexive dictionary, and a theoretical framework of intersectionality. Within nadia's practice, Chimera is a material study of color, live digital media and light, and a piece of their continued exploration of the in-betweens, productions and translations of identities at an individual, interpersonal and institutional level. Connections are drawn between the universal intuitive human experience of light and color relativity, and the unique experience of the self, the other(s) in the context of identity. Language familiar to color science, quantum physics, astronomy, and critical theories have been collected, defined, categorized, mapped, appropriated, re appropriated and synthesized into this expansive dictionary of universal concepts. The goal (always) being a step towards our individual and collective liberation. In the absence of light we cannot see color. In the absence of the other, we cannot see the self. see the work →chimera.nadiahali.com