Nádia Taquary’s work encompasses sculptures, sculpture-objects, installations and video installations that reveal an artistic investigation of a poetics relative to the history of Brazil, through a contemporary look at the tradition, African heritage and ancestrality facing oppression and freedom. Among the materials used in her works there is a mixture of wood from demolition or from certified origin, gold, silver, beads, figs, coconut tablets, whelks, straws and beads, among other materials that result in an investigation of the history of black people in Brazil. It is from the encounter with this Bahian history, this ancestral knowledge, that the artist began her journey to look at Creole jewels and body adornments from across Africa, and do so through a poetic imagination about art, religiosity and blackness.

Taquary grew up in Valencia, Bahia coast and has a degree in Literature from UCSal (Catholic University of Salvador/Bahia) and a postgraduate degree in Aesthetics, Semiology and Culture at the EBA-UFBA (School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Bahia). Of numerous exhibitions, these are of most note, Vértice, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia (2019); Afro-Atlantic Histories, MASP, São Paulo (2018); Women at MAR, Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro/MAR, Rio de Janeiro (2018); Axé Bahia: The power of art in a metropolis Afro-Brazilian, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles (2017); Time is Languages, Paulo Darzé Galeria, Salvador, Bahia (2015). In 2011, she held her first solo exhibition A Bahia Tem…, at the Carlos Costa Pinto Museum, Salvador, Bahia.