Saturday, Nov 15, 12–3PM
FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA CA 90065
Info on our space here
Free
Visit with Artist in Residence, Silvi Naçi, to talk, read, and sit with them at FCCW while they embroider and bead their work. This is an unstructured and casual invitation, and you can drop-in when you like!
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Silvi Naçi is a queer Albanian educator, artist, researcher, and writer working between Albania and Tongva and Chumash territory, colonized as Los Angeles. Their praxis engages the image and its politics across photography, performance, moving-image, text, weaving, drawing, and installation. Their work examines how the marginalized body is affected by an oppressive state, the subtle and violent ways that migration results from colonialism, and how processes of decolonization affect and reshape a people, the body, language, and possibilities of gender identity.
Naçi holds a dual BFA in Fine Arts & Graphic Design from Suffolk University and an MFA in Photography & Media from California Institute of the Arts. They have exhibited works at Manifesta 14 Prishtina, XK; National Gallery of Art, Tirana, AL; The National Gallery of Kosovo, XK; Grand Hotel, Kosovo, XK; Other Places Art Fair, LA; Greater LA MFA Exhibition, LA; and is a recipient of the Tim Disney Excellence in Storytelling Prize and the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Travel Grant. Their writing on art criticism has been published in Artsy, East of Borneo, Contemporary Art Review LA, X-TRA, Big Red & Shiny, NKA Journal for Contemporary African Art, and Hunter Fashion Magazine. Naçi has participated in residency at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA); Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (Berlin, Germany); Elsewhere Museum and Residency (Greensboro, NC); Évora NAU (Évora, Portugal); Vermont Studio Center (VT); perfocraZe International Artist Residency (Kumasi, Ghana), and the Feminist Center for Creative Work residency (Los Angeles, CA). Naçi is a doctoral student in the Global Studies department at UCI. Find more info on their work at silverprojects.co or follow them on Instagram @silvi.naci.