Inside the Church of Saints Philip and James, a Silk Art Museum complex, designer Allegra Hicks, internationally renowned for her works that fuse craftsmanship and textile art, will exhibit her latest project, the work ‘DIVINAZIONE’.

A tapestry measuring three and a half by two and a half metres, made of embroidered silk, which is intended as a tribute to the place that hosts it, whose sacredness is linked to the cult of the patron saints of silk workers. Inside the space there are still many elements made of this fabric, which is also paid homage in the sculptures, as well as in the textile works.

On the occasion of EDIT Naples and as part of the EDIT CULT programme, with “DIVINATION”, Allegra Hicks recounts the emergence of the inner world, a play of textures and colours that narrates the manifestation of the self, of the unconscious, represented in the tapestry by the colour red, an intimate and profound core surrounded by blue, symbolically associated with the elements of water and air, which become a means of conveying matter and essence itself to the outside world. Through the fabric, the artist reinterprets the sacredness of a moment of self-discovery, the transparency and passage leading to awareness, celebrated as an essential and almost mystical moment in “DIVINATION”.

7-9 October 2022: EDIT Napoli, the fair dedicated to editorial and author design in the heart of the Neapolitan city.
The silk tapestry Divinazione, by the artist/designer Allegra Hicks, was exhibited at the Church dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo, or Church of the Art of Silk, as part of the EDIT Cult programme, a cycle of diffuse exhibitions dedicated to the culture of design, with the aim of opening some of the most prestigious places in Naples to the public and presenting works of international renown.
As a place that bears witness to the excellence in the art of silk production of the city of Naples, paying homage to it was an entirely natural and organic process for the artist, whose work always starts from a textile idea, from the material to its application.
When working with fabric, the watercolour creates several layers of transparencies, giving depth to the image, given by the overlapping textures.
Light blue, a colour symbolising spirituality, and red, synonymous with interiority, merge, establishing an encounter between the ‘inside’ and the ‘outside’. A dialogue between soul and body that, becoming a unicum, opens up to spirituality.
A work that flows into itself and at the same time opens up to the world, thus reaching Divination.