Installation view of “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Feb. 27 to May 31, 2021. . 2021 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Robert Gerhardt. Architect Felecia Davis used active textiles and advanced knitting technologies to create “Fabricating Networks,” on display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) this past spring as one of 11 projects featured in “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America.” The exhibition examined contemporary architecture in the context of systemic racism and the histories of discrimination and injustice in the U.S. Davis’s piece recalls Pittsburgh’s Hill District, a vibrant, predominantly Black neighborhood in the early 20th century that was destroyed for “redevelopment,” displacing some 8,000 people.
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