Confronting Legacies: Magda Fernández
If you ever have the pleasure of meeting the fascinating Magda Fernández, you will be encapsulated by her engaging ways of storytelling, kindness, and laughter. Her work is brilliant, raw,…
Author Silvi Naci
Silvi Naci
Silví Naçí is a curator and artist living and working in Boston. Her family moved to the U.S. from a war zone (formerly Communist) for a better life in 2001, two months prior to 9.11. Naci studied at the Instituto Cultural de Oaxaca (Oaxaca, Mexico 2004), Studio Art Centers International (Florence, Italy 2008), and graduated from the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University with a dual degree in Fine Arts & Graphic Design (2011). She was a curatorial intern at MIT's LIST Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, MA), the Cloud Foundation (Boston, MA) and Artists for Humanity (South Boston, MA). Naci served as Assistant Director at Samsøñ (Boston, MA), Art Director at the Liquid Art House (Boston, MA) and curator at the Fourth Wall Project (Boston, MA), the Distillery Gallery (South Boston, MA), and the Blanc Gallery (Dorchester, MA). Currently, Naci is getting her MFA at CalArts, and continues to work as independent curator, staff writer and editor at Big Red & Shiny.
Nari Ward: Neutralize Naturalization
Sun Splashed: Nari Ward, the artist’s largest survey to date, is now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Organized by Ruth Erickson, Mannion Family Curator, with Jessica…
Lupe Mojada: Interview with Jimena Bermejo
In this conversation with dancer and performance artist Jimena Bermejo, we explore the interdependent themes of belonging, immigration, borders, and human relationships in regards to dance and performance art. With…
In Conversation with Artist & Curator Carlos Jiménez Cahua
Carlos Jiménez Cahua is an artist and curator living and working in NY. I have known CJC for a couple of years and have shared some wonderful and insightful conversations…
Alida Cervantes: Majas, cambujas y virreinacas
Majas, cambujas y virreinacas by Alida Cervantes, currently on view at the Mills Gallery and curated by Candice Ivy, presents a series of works which integrate Mexico’s racially and socially…
Wild Child: Beverly Semmes
Since the 1990s, Beverly Semmes’s work has been at the forefront of contemporary art. Semmes’s work is situated at the nexus of American feminism, puritanism, and history of sculpture and…
STAND UP: Silvi Naçi in conversation with Furen Dai
With a background in linguistics and work experience as an interpreter for several years in China, Furen Dai’s artistic practice centers on language and the culture built through it. She…
The NO That Brought Us Together: KNOW NO by Masary Studios
Whenever an immersive art experience takes place in Boston, I hear many people say: “This is exactly what Boston needs…we need more of this.” I don’t think it’s the spectacle…
ISSUES OF POWER: Resilience and Healing
“With my work I reaffirm black cultural values in the contemporary world.” – Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy, 1998 Curated by Alejandro de la Fuente, Diago: The Past of This Afro-Cuban…
Scaffolding For Future Repairs: A Goldstein Reflex
I first experienced Audrey Goldstein’s work at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), after she had won the SMFA Traveling Fellowship in 2007. Goldstein exhibited two healing machines: “Generosity…
STAND UP: Silvi Naci in Conversation with Dell M. Hamilton
Dell M. Hamilton’s work draws on not only the historical conventions of photography and performance art but also on the history of black theater, the written and oral traditions of black…
ISSUES OF POWER: The Space Between Ignorance & Acknowledgement
“I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”-Zora Neale Hurston As a byproduct of a conversation with my dear friend and fellow artist Chanel Thervil,…
TO BE IS TO BE PERCEIVED: Inside Public Trust
“…the problem lies not whether to reach for either larger or more selective audiences, but rather in understanding for ourselves our own definitions of those groups we wish to speak…