Nadia N A D E G E

ARTISTIC SEARCH IN CONTEMPORARY ART

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Investigate identity

Here are my most recent artworks. As artistic creation implies being in constant evolution, my production has evolved a lot during the last 2 years. Since Fall 2008 where I worked with Lisa Petiteau ¨C working in Art History and writing a thesis about Female Art, I have been deeply called by portraying contemporary identity quest.

What does this mean ?

As an orphan, an adopted child, an expatriate, an immigrant¡­ I lived in several places : Asia, South-America, Europe and North-America. Having been daily with yellow, red and black, I often feel as an ¡°half-blood¡± white.

Coming from unknown biological family, I was educated by such diverse people like devoted nurses of the orphanage, Buddhist monk and Lao boy, Amazonian Shaman and black moms, bipolar adoptive mother and Army officer father-in-law¡­

Lots of influences, lots of trips, lots of marvelous experiences in nature, lots of family violence, lots of spiritual gifts¡­ All of this making me a strong survivor, believing in the healing power of Spiritual Faith and Love in Action. But no real roots : no tradition to ground in, no place to originate from, no history as an anchor, no family to belong to.

Create as a way of living

Creation is my way of LIVING. Creation is my way of communicating. Creation is my way of loving. As long as I remember, I was drawing and writing. I conceived my first book at the age of 10, when I wrote this story and illustrated it and cutting pages to assemble them inside a cover, and putting the title and my name as the author. All in secret, because nobody encouraged art in my family.

For them, being an artist was being a fool, damned and condemned to live miserably and isolated. Which, in consequence, took me a long time to make my art public and to even dare to name me as an artist. I finally did it because of the freedom that I discovered by living in Canada, especially in Quebec. Immigrating in Montreal was like a second birth, feeling for the first time close to people around and recognized by them as part of the community. All of a sudden, I was free to express myself in a society where being entrepreneur was a pride, being a single mother was a courage, being a newcomer was an inspiration, being a foreigner was a richness¡­

Make a living from art

In 2005, I chose to make a living from art and working as a full-time artist, continuing to draw, write and photography, and beginning to paint with acrylic. Working first intensively with colours, in semi-figurative and abstraction, my gestural artwork progressively included more and more textures, materials and raw aspects ¨C keeping alive expressionism and primitivism which are my basic artistic currents.

¡öPortraits are speaking about this identity quest which is the 21st century humankind : transfer, hybrid, permeable, androgen, mutant.
¡öAbstracts are speaking about the planet face to our place on it : water as the ultimate real issue, economy and media as a new dictatorship, power of Being against empowering Having, sacred of universal Earth against individuality sacralized¡­
I create to allow personal authentic investigation about who We Are by questioning who I Am. Each of my artwork provokes this questioning, calling the looker inside of her/him to better know who she/he is ¨C supported by the dramatic effect of my art, letting life pulsation through emotion to arise.

Teaching humanism by art

The purpose of teaching is to allow an in-depth learning experience for learners and educators through professional artistic process in an hand-made approach.

Master of Arts (MA), I graduated in art (Fine Arts, History of Art, Literacy in French universities or high schools) and in education (Facilitator Certificate of University of Los Angeles, Psychology Certificate of University of Paris VIII, E-learning of University of Quebec in Montreal).

Based on 20 years of experience in training and teaching, I offer courses and programs, workshops and conferences, demos and live performances ¨C including goals and needs of teachers for students in academic and professional education fields.

With European and Canadian passports, I am able to work in these regions.

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