Serigraphy with collage

A MAGICAL ARK OF THE COVENANT

Fabesko (Fabienne Escolano) was born in 1970 and lives and works in Paris and Belgium. Her work has developed between painting, drawing, textile sculpture, and installation. The artist, with an international background, combines in her work a very critical view of contemporary society and the playful and wonderful universe of fairy tales and children's fables.

In the composition she dedicated to Lisbon, the figures, a whole family, present themselves in a kind of improvised stage amidst the bustle and indifference of the city, which is the ideal partner for a journey among the small miracles of everyday life. With forms of touching and magical simplicity, correspondingly expressed in the joy of flat and contrasting colors. Once again, her characters are like little lost hearts, with a smiling and wise melancholy gaze, in search of another heart that Chaos swallowed, and that persists, like fragments of a timeless comedy.

In this poetic scene, the invitation that the artist extends to us is to accept the challenge of recreating her small paradises, now inhabited by a charming fauna of animals that seem to have come out of a modern Noah's Ark. An ark of the covenant capable of preserving love and the purest and perhaps most archaic feelings of humanity, symbolized by the innocent and childish kiss, but also by the kind of harmony suggested among all creatures from all kingdoms. This is the most evident message of this collection that currently offers us its talent and invention.

Maria João Fernandes - International Association of Art Critics (AICA)