Frieze Projects: Dominique Moody: ‘NOMAD’
Dominique Moody, ‘NOMAD’, 2015–24.
1950 salvaged truck and trailer, wood and metal construction, found objects: washing and drying machine doors, corrugated metal, vintage salvaged barn-wood, salvaged globe, bicycle rim, reclaimed wood, collage panels, and text.
Location: 7
About the Project
The NOMAD is an Art Truck and Trailer Dwelling which functions as a Mobile Artist in Residence. The evolution of NOMAD has come in many stages, it continues to be a work in process inspired by found objects and the nomadic legacy of Dominique's family and ancestral lineage. Its long journey has gone from a dream to a concept installation to the fully functioning NOMAD whose acronym is Narrative, Odyssey, Manifesting, Artistic, Dreams.
About the Artist
Dominique Moody (b. 1956, Augsburg, Germany) is a nomadic visual artist whose collage, mixed media, assemblage structures and installations are layered with personal and social narratives that reflect her African Diaspora and cultural experience.
As an urban nomad, she has found creative refuge in Los Angeles for the past 25 years. In LA she has been embraced by the African American arts community specifically and the arts ecosystem in general. Her narrative artwork is inspired by the objects she finds and from the places she finds them. Assembled the objects are transformed into figurative or structural forms that tell stories both real and imagined.
Assemblage Art has a unique voice in LA and Moody has added an additional perspective to that school of thought. Her practice is reflected in her non-traditional approach as an artist as well as an arts educator, bringing the creative practice into people's everyday lives. Over the years her social practice of engagement could be found in schools, museums, cultural institutions and campuses and neighborhoods. Her work can also be seen in public and private spaces as temporary and permanent artworks in communities throughout LA.
Mobility is both symbolic and has an activated role in her work because her intentions are for it to travel beyond borders. Her NOMAD art dwelling has facilitated this vision through artist residencies in both urban and rural environments in ways that could not otherwise exist. However, the NOMAD is not an art studio in the traditional way, due to its scale all work is done outside with whatever is found in the space. What is essential to Moody as an artist is a nurturing space to dream, so for Dominique the Nomad is Home, where all things are made possible.
NOMAD House tours take place daily: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 11AM–2PM, 3–7PM. Sunday 11AM–2PM, 3–6PM
Further Information
Frieze Los Angeles, 20 – 23 February 2025, Santa Monica Airport.
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Main image: Dominique Moody in NOMAD. Photo: Khari Scott
