Dana Nacer is a fine artist and creative director based in Boston, MA.
Statement
I grew up absorbing a very specific set of lessons about what made a woman valuable. Not stated outright, but passed down through behavior, through the way power moved in every family I saw up close, and through the young medium of advertising. Men were given power. Women managed around it. And I was taught, in ways both explicit and not, that a woman's worth was tied to how well she could please, accommodate, and disappear into what other people needed from her.
The glossy mid-century material I work with was a significant part of this conditioning. They sold a vision of womanhood as performance and called it aspiration. I deconstruct this imagery to illuminate what's underneath. What it cost. What was abandoned.
Making this work is how I uncover the beliefs I’ve unconsciously internalized. How I begin to take up space. And how I close the gap between what I was told I want and what I actually do.
Bio
Dana Nacer is a fine artist and creative director based in Boston, MA. She holds a BFA from Brooklyn College and has spent her career working across design and fine art, an influence visible in her use of shape, color, and image. Equally inspired by mid-century graphic design and American feminist portraiture, her analog collage work draws on ephemera and vernacular imagery to examine domesticity, power, and the private life of women.