Hours:

The exhibition is open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays, from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM.

Special Openings:
July 12–13: from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
(On the occasion of the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the exhibition will have extended opening hours.)

During the week, visits can be arranged by appointment by contacting:
+39 347 805 0674 (Ilaria Grassi)

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In Borgolavezzaro, in the heart of the Bassa Novarese, an area deeply shaped by its rice-growing tradition, Bibi Manavi’s site-specific intervention takes form in the Dormitory of the Mondine at Cascina Caccia. The installation unfolds as a suspended textile landscape, where images drawn from hydraulic and rural archives evoke gestures, tools, maps, and evolving practices.
Water flows through the work as a living element, weaving together the threads of the landscape: from irrigation canals seen from above to plant structures observed under the microscope. The images — at times sharp, at times faded — layer over fabrics of varying transparency, creating visual stratifications that reflect the interdependence between environment and human action.
It is water itself, with its visible presence in the rice fields’s waters and its invisible management, that guides a reflection moving between microscopic scale and agricultural landscape. Each year, its flow is regulated according to climatic and morphological variables — a practice of care that constantly questions the land and embodies a collective, dynamic knowledge, still visible today in the historic hydric network of the Est Sesia, one of the oldest and most intricate irrigation systems in Europe.
The artist intercepts traces, often imperceptible, and transforms them into images. Her works explore not only the territory, but also the memory held in the bodies that inhabit it: hands that sow, dig, measure, observe. Repeated, transmitted, and reinvented gestures that tell stories of labor as a form of relationship with the environment.
The title Flessione Riflesso (Flexion Reflection) evokes this double movement: flexion as gesture, reflection as image and resonance. The work inserts itself into the texture of a community whose identity is rooted in water and labor, offering a space of listening, suspension, and shared imagination.

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Artwork:
01. Bibi Manavi, Flessione Riflesso, 2025, textile prints, wooden supports, metal structures, variable dimensions.
Cascina Caccia, Borgolavezzaro (NO)

The installation is located inside Cascina Caccia.

Public opening days and hours are as follows:

• Saturday and Sunday from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm

(except during the week of Ferragosto)

• July 12–13: from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm

(On the occasion of the Festa Patronale della Madonna del Carmelo, extended opening hours are planned)

• Other days by appointment only by contacting the following number: +39 347 805 0674 / Ilaria Grassi

Access via two flights of stairs.

Not accessible to people with reduced mobility.

Bibi Manavi (France/Iran, 1991) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Paris. She graduated from Central Saint Martins – University of the Arts London, with a degree in Fine Arts in 20215. Her practice explores the thematics of memory, ecology, and cultural heritage through the medium of mirrored sculptures and photography. Rooted in the Persian craft of Aineh-Kari, her work reinterprets traditional mirror mosaic techniques through biomorphic patterns inspired by microscopic plant structures. By combining sculpture and photography, she archives disappearing flora, using reflective surfaces to dissolve the boundary between viewer and environment. Her installations engage with the fragility of ecosystems and the shifting landscapes of the Anthropocene.
Manavi’s work has been exhibited internationally in institutions. In 2023, she participated in Imprints of Iran at Cromwell Place in London and her series Memory of Walnut Trees was exhibited at MIA Fair in Milan, exploring photography as a means of ecological storytelling. She has also participated in institutional exhibitions such as Le Mont Analogue, FRAC Cham- pagne-Ardenne (FR, 2021) and Critical Zones, ZKM Karlsruhe (DE, 2020), both addressing the intersection of art, landscape, and environmental change. Alongside her artistic practice, Manavi has led curatorial projects focused on Iranian textile traditions, including Textile as Art and Stitching Baluchestan, presented at London Craft Week 2023, London.