Tomorrow Daytime Dawn, Right?

2023, cotton, banners, approx. 60 x 135 cm (5 pieces)
in collaboration with Shallott Awe and Rashida Dawud

The result of discussions with anthropologists and sociologists and collaboration with Wa weavers, the work raises a question on the nature-culture relationship starting with a human characteristic: skin colour.

Exhibition

Intrecciare Mondi, 2026, Castello d’Albertis, Genova (Italy), curated by Costanza Meli

Woori Festival, 2024, Nubuke Foundation, Wa (Ghana), curated by Sela Kodjo Adjei

The textile banners invite to speculate on the social implication on natural data, specifically in relation to the colour of the skin and the cultural discrimination, even self-imposed in certain case due to reverence. The artwork is based on an enquiry the artist has developed in Wa during the art residency, organising personal meetings with the anthropologist Alexis Tegan, and the sociologists Prof. Daniel Bagah and Prof. Sylvester Galaa, and eventually an Art Talk with all of them, attended by a heterogeneous audience. In dialogue with Tegan, De Marchi has later conceptualised the text weaved on the banner wondaring if a certain appellation should be considered racist.

The artwork is made in collaboration with Shallott Awe and Rashida Dawud, weavers at the metal standing looms, and is based on an exchange of know-how. This kind of loom has been introduced by Shallott in Wa, a city where the sound and physicality of weaving is spread all around, and has been chosen by Rebecca as a recent tradition. With the two professional weavers the artist has been experimented a writing insertion into this kind of fabric, borrowing the technic from the Kente weaving, which she practices.

Image Credits

Nubuke Foundation, RDM

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