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Nash Caldera is a visual and performance artist from Cura\u00e7ao, based in the Netherlands. Working with photography, video, installation, sound and performance, she explores and attempts to understand the multiplicity of her identity as a Queer Black Woman from Cura\u00e7ao. She intends to create new narratives and new understanding of the notion of home by looking into the idea of nostalgia, and how our senses trigger memories that might let us experience the feeling of home even in other places. Spirituality, food, language and superstition are very present in Caldera\u2019s practice, which gives her space to play around with different concepts of dimensions and time. Her work makes people FEEL. In 2018 Nash Caldera graduated with a BA in Fine Art (2018) from the Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA) in Rotterdam where she also teaches in various projects (2020-2022). In her graduation year she was nominated for the Drempelprijs and the Maaskantprijs both from the WdKA. She continued her education in Art Praxis at DAI Roaming Academy a.k.a. Dutch Art Institute (2022). Nash Caldera performed \u201cDi Tera Nos Ta Bin Di Tera Nos Ta Bai II\u201d at several art institutions in The Netherlands, such as Het Nieuwe Institute, Rotterdam (2018\/2020) and Galerie Lecq, Rotterdam(2018). In 2019 she collaborated with a former classmate on a performance called \u201cMy Broken Tongue\u201d (TAC, Eindhoven). Nash performed the \u201cAdor\u00e1 Yemay\u00e1 Tap\u00e1\u201d which was a live performance, based on an earlier video performance at Framer Framed\u2019s werkplaats Molenwijk in Amsterdam (2019). Caldera\u2019s performance \u201cMansa\u201d was part of the opening of the \u201cVan Amulet tot Artefact\u201d exhibition. In collaboration with Umma Chroma, Caldera, together with other performers, took part in an installation at the exhibition \u201cG\/D Thyself: Spirit Strategy On Raising Free Black Children\u201d at Het Nieuwe Institute during the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020. In 2019 she participated in the project \u201cWHO AM I BECOMING\u201d which was then made into a film (screened at the IFFR). With her own showroom \u201cKontemplashon di Multiplisidat den Kontekstonan\u201d she took part in an online exhibition on the platform EL PRAN Projecten (2021). Nash Caldera was an artist in residence at Uniarte (Cura\u00e7ao, 2020) and at VHDG (Leeuwarden, 2021), where, in 2022 she also had her first solo exhibition \u201c(PLANT-IN)-Different-Soil\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n