Felicity Saravia White skillfully weaves together elements of sculpture, installation, drawing and film. Her aesthetic is distinctly mortal – textured, voluminous forms of intricate, lace-like networks. White deliberately selects materials rich with historical and cultural significance, finding resolution in the thoughtful weaving of conceptual and material connections.
Her current work emerges from her complex relationship with El Salvador, employing culturally resonant materials including earth daub, seed gourds and concrete. Her artistic vision is influenced by Indigenous knowledge systems, Buddhist meditation practices, and her previous career in molecular biology and neuroscience—a unique confluence of perspectives informing her distinctive voice.
For Hidden Door’s 2025 Festival, White presents La Torre Qué Alcanza Al Cielo (The Tower that Reaches the Sky). Creating an organic echo of the hyper-industrial crane shed, this work has found new life at Hidden Door. The tower offers itself to reflections on the festival’s themes – around building, nature, and feminisation of industrial space.
The piece’s soft subversion of industrial form is originally inspired by community radio activism in El Salvador. After an art research trip to her mother’s maternal homeland, Felicity discovered the radical community radio station ‘Radio Victoria’. She created this imposing ‘radio tower’ as part of an installation, amplifying the defiant voices of journalists, community activators and environmental rights defenders threatened by growing authoritarianism in El Salvador. The mix of building materials in the work reflect the blend of tradition and modernity in the country.
It is part of an ongoing body of work reflecting on the complex social and political environment in El Salvador.
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