SILVI NAÇI
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, FALL 2025
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 – SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14
@ FCCW: 3053 ROSSLYN ST., LA CA 90065
It’s with great enthusiasm that we’re announcing Silvi Naçi as Feminist Center for Creative Work’s Artist In Residence for Fall 2025. Their project, skin to sky: radical play as resistance, draws from an art practice they’ve been building in many forms, in many locations, among many communities for quite some time. Whether through reading groups, interviews, performance, collaborative making, or sharing tea and a meal, Silvi Naçi’s work is about the deep connections and impactful shifts made through collaboration and play — and the space this creates for new, radical queer, feminist acts and ways of being together to emerge.
Staring in October, Silvi Naçi invites you to gather with us and play — in conversation with artists influential to their practice, through the ritual of lantern making for Mid-Autumn Festival, with our bodies to make large-scale cyanotypes, with our hands and imaginations through kite building workshops. We hope you’ll join us in play in October and November!
SCHEDULE OF PROGRAMS
Saturday, Oct 11, 6–9PM @ FCCW — Lantern Making for Mid-Autumn Moon Festival with Vickie Aravindhan and Silvi Naçi
Saturday, Oct 18, 11:30AM–1:30PM @ FCCW — Co-Authoring Cyanotypes with Silvi Naçi, open to queer/trans BIPOC
Saturday, Oct 25, 11:30AM–1:30PM @FCCW — Co-Authoring Cyanotypes with Silvi Naçi, open to queer/trans BIPOC
Saturday, Nov 1, 11:30AM–1:30PM @FCCW — Co-Authoring Cyanotypes with Silvi Naçi, open to queer/trans BIPOC
Saturday, Nov 8, 3-6PM @ FCCW — Queering Kites
Saturday, Nov 15, 12–3PM @ FCCW — Free Play
Saturday, Nov 22, 2–5PM @ FCCW — recess: a Black feminist playground with Gabrielle Civil
Sunday, Nov 23, 12–3PM @ FCCW — marching on a dinner table with Dina Nazmi Khorchid
Saturday, Dec, 13 @ FCCW — Exhibit Closing Celebration
Sunday, Dec 14 @ Annenberg Community Beach House — Kite-Flying
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.