Salt is excited to announce our new Monthly Featured Artist series. We believe this will be a great way for you to get to know some up and coming New York City artists who we feel are having a positive impact and are definitely creating some conversation.

I am especially pleased to introduce our first artist, Nadirah Zakariya.

Born in Malaysia, Nadirah spent her childhood in Texas, bravely struggled through adolescence in Kuala Lumpur, found her path in Japan, and realized herself in New York. The body of work presented is inspired by the absence of the concept of home throughout her upbringing to this day. Growing up in various places around the world, the sense of displacement of being neither here nor there was always present. Nadirah finds the concept of liminality compelling, as it means the state between two worlds. She conveys this theme of being in the liminal phase through her photographs by placing the subjects behind a stained glass.

This series can be seen on the artist's website here, as well as a physical installation in the Salt Space during the month of December.



Nadirah Zakariya, Liminars, 5 digital c-prints, 20x30 and 11x14, 2010.