Appearing in the NADA Projects section is this striking presentation by New Orleans-based painter Ruth Owens. The installation centers on an incident from Owens’s childhood, when she was abducted by her German grandmother on the eve of her family’s emigration from Germany to America. The artist recounts the incident in delicate, dreamy watercolors that make apparent her racial difference (Owens was born to an African American father and a German mother). The watercolors, presented in shadow boxes and surrounded by layers of Nigerian batik and European floral fabrics that seem to mimic the batik, appear as intimate recollections of Owens’s unique upbringing. That sense is furthered by an audio installation in which a voice recounts the abduction, and two video works depicting Black families frolicking in the water and fishing, recalling the scratchy Super-8 home movies of the artist’s childhood. It’s rare to find a presentation as complete and engrossing as Owens’s at an art fair; it’s worth taking the time to let this one transport you.