A MAGICAL ARK OF ALLIANCE

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 dedicated to Lisbon, the figures, a whole family, present themselves in a kind of improvised stage amidst the hustle and indifference of the city, which is the ideal partner for a journey among the small miracles of everyday life. With shapes of touching and magical simplicity, which aesthetically correspond to the joy of plain and highly 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 has consumed 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 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 of which the innocent and childish kiss is emblematic, but also the kind of harmony suggested between all creatures of all kingdoms, the most evident message of this ensemble that currently offers us their talent and invention.

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