Hard
Due to shifting protocol and pandemic-related restrictions, Love’s Remedies has moved its microresidency with artist Silvi Naçi off the ArtCenter DTLA site.
Every Saturday and Sunday from 4-7p through the month of September, Silvi hosts a gathering on their outdoor patio in relation to their project, Hard (2020- Ongoing).
Since the beginning of the year and throughout the pandemic, Silvi (and their collaborators) have been working a project related to a specific bean called fasule, from their homeland, Albania. The work follows the trajectory of the bean from West Africa, to the Middle East, to the Mediterranean, throughout years of colonization. Each life-size ceramic fasule has at its root, vulvas carved in. Hundreds of ceramic fasules, white (raw) and brown (cooked) are molded by hand. Touch, being with one another, and collective making is at the root of this work.
Concurrently, Silvi has been organizing reading groups to speak about the topics related to the fasule project: care, solidarity, craft, the body, queer studies, isolation, and love. As the ceramics are molded, participants read aloud, from a reader being compiled by a group in Albania which Silvi has co-founded. The collective process of working and conversation resembles the process when women historically harvested the beans together.