"Where some photos show familiar dusty green carpets and smoke stained curtains, the next presents another type of common American interior - a room stacked with rifles. Nadia's confronting approach is no better represented than through weaponry; one standout image shows a handsome knife decorated with an American flag grip - cultural history and the implication of violence all in one."
"Blending the mundane with the quiet tension of American life, Nadia reinvents her own childhood through character study and a Hollywood movie lens. "I remember the smell of bacon, coffee, or pizza depending on the time of day. Kids would be running around squealing," says Nadia. "The house was very much alive - there was a coziness to the chaos, and I was at the age where I found any kind of dispute or dysfunctionality exciting.""
"Designed to physically resemble a Bible, Holy Ohio observes the intricacies of America's rural heartland as well as the quiet temperance of Christian theology that connects the nation. In one image, a sign reads 'waterbeds 'n' stuff', speaking to the simple kitsch of rural consumer imagery, whilst in another, two men look into the distance whilst a giant dinosaur looms in the background, referencing America as something prehistoric, frozen in time or stuck in the past."
The photographic series juxtaposes familiar domestic interiors—dusty green carpets, smoke-stained curtains—and rooms stacked with rifles and weaponry to conflate everyday life with latent violence. Self-inserted figures embody a cinematic character who reimagines childhood through sensory memories of bacon, coffee, pizza, and noisy children. Designed to resemble a Bible, Holy Ohio links rural heartland scenes with Christian temperance, kitschy consumer signs, and prehistoric motifs such as a looming dinosaur. Frequent portraits of the elderly, dentures on tables, and preserved rooms reveal the corrosion of memory and heritage beneath a bombastic glossy surface.
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