"I'm a small matchbox, what's inside me has a power to be explosive"
Born on September 3, 1975, Fabiana Salomao received early praise and accolades for her artistic talent throughout her school career in Sao Paulo, Brazil, often being observed as someone with a technical ability beyond her years.
Fabiana studied Fine arts at the faculty of arts at the University of Sao Paulo in 1993. An artist who believes in continuous education, her post degree academic career has spanned graphic design, literature and modern theology.
Fabiana found her early career footing in commercial illustration for a number of children's publishing houses. A path that she continues to feel gratitude towards, referencing it as a necessity of surviving. Having left home early, she talks about the importance of making a living to support herself and her son as a young and fully independent single mother.
She became a member of Latitude 22; the 2013 Brazilian contemporary art & visual poetics society in 2013 and has since focused the majority of her time on collective and solo exhibitions. Fabiana still takes commercial commissions from Brazil’s top publishing houses.
In 2018, the artist moved to Canada to expand her footing into North America. During the lockdown period, she produced 38 pieces that she exhibited in an open studio showing from June to August, 2021. Entitled ‘Concrete Memory’, Fabiana depicts research on concrete art and its broad influence in Brazil and Latin America to date and questions “How modern is Contemporary Art?”. The critical thinking centers on Concretist and Neo-concrete female artists and their reverberation in its contemporary productions. Vancouver based curator and culture journalist, Donald Brackett seamlessly captured the show “Salamo’s aesthetic enterprise is the notion of the volumetric: recurring sequences of architectural structures which emphasize geometric abstraction. And, in particular, our unique relationship with the ever-receding, or advancing, or shifting, shapes that make up the modernist mentality”. The sequel to this show went on to be exhibited in Brazil in January 2022.
Salomao references her small stature when she thinks ahead to what's next in her collections "I'm a small matchbox, what's inside me has a power to be explosive". She is excited to bring a physical scale to her work, citing she'd like her work to be as big as the male privilege she continues to counter. Her new sculptural studies fill her studio and a performance piece is currently in development.
Fabiana studied Fine arts at the faculty of arts at the University of Sao Paulo in 1993. An artist who believes in continuous education, her post degree academic career has spanned graphic design, literature and modern theology.
Fabiana found her early career footing in commercial illustration for a number of children's publishing houses. A path that she continues to feel gratitude towards, referencing it as a necessity of surviving. Having left home early, she talks about the importance of making a living to support herself and her son as a young and fully independent single mother.
She became a member of Latitude 22; the 2013 Brazilian contemporary art & visual poetics society in 2013 and has since focused the majority of her time on collective and solo exhibitions. Fabiana still takes commercial commissions from Brazil’s top publishing houses.
In 2018, the artist moved to Canada to expand her footing into North America. During the lockdown period, she produced 38 pieces that she exhibited in an open studio showing from June to August, 2021. Entitled ‘Concrete Memory’, Fabiana depicts research on concrete art and its broad influence in Brazil and Latin America to date and questions “How modern is Contemporary Art?”. The critical thinking centers on Concretist and Neo-concrete female artists and their reverberation in its contemporary productions. Vancouver based curator and culture journalist, Donald Brackett seamlessly captured the show “Salamo’s aesthetic enterprise is the notion of the volumetric: recurring sequences of architectural structures which emphasize geometric abstraction. And, in particular, our unique relationship with the ever-receding, or advancing, or shifting, shapes that make up the modernist mentality”. The sequel to this show went on to be exhibited in Brazil in January 2022.
Salomao references her small stature when she thinks ahead to what's next in her collections "I'm a small matchbox, what's inside me has a power to be explosive". She is excited to bring a physical scale to her work, citing she'd like her work to be as big as the male privilege she continues to counter. Her new sculptural studies fill her studio and a performance piece is currently in development.