An installation by 2023 WOJR/Civitella Architecture Prize Fellow, Felecia Davis, was recently on view at the Castle. “We are in the Wake_Visible/Invisible” used interwoven material to explore the electromagnetic waves forming an invisible urbanism floating in and around us.
“The project is a development of the Black Flower Antenna I created for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. I’m exploring the idea of a fabric antenna that interacts with invisible electromagnetic waves. I am interested in using this invisible media to reflect on the invisibility and simultaneous hypervisibility experienced by Black people in the U.S,” Davis told us.
While Davis typically works with industrial knitting, she became hooked on hand weaving after being introduced to the Intrecciamo I Fili Laboratory, a workshop near Civitella. She also visited the Giuditta Brozzetti Museum & Atelier in Perugia, which houses a collection of historic looms to recreate traditional 12th-century designs, and worked with Fabula wood workshop to produce frames for her pieces.
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