A MAGICAL ARK OF ALLIANCE

Fabesko (Fabienne Escolano) was born in 1970 and lives and works in Paris and Belgium. Her work encompasses painting, drawing, textile sculpture, and installation. The artist, with an international career, combines in her work a highly critical view of contemporary society and the playful and wondrous universe of fairy tales and children's fables. In the composition dedicated to Lisbon, figures of an entire family present themselves on a sort of improvised stage amidst the hustle and bustle and indifference of the city, which is the ideal partner for a journey through the small miracles of everyday life. With forms of touching and magical simplicity, the joy of flat and highly contrasting colors corresponds visually. Once again, her characters are like little lost hearts, with smiling eyes full of wise melancholy, in search of another heart that Chaos has swallowed, and which persists, like the fragments of a timeless comedy. In this poetic scene, the artist invites us to accept the challenge of recreating her small paradises, now inhabited by a charming fauna of animals that seem to come out of a modern Noah's Ark. An ark of alliance capable of preserving love and the purest and perhaps most archaic feelings of humanity, love symbolized by the innocent and childlike kiss, but also by the kind of harmony suggested among all creatures from all realms, the most evident message of this collection that currently offers us its talent and invention.

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