Fabiola Di Fulvio, born in Ticino in 1982, decided to move to German-speaking Switzerland at the age of fifteen to begin her art education. After several journeys that shaped her personal growth and after her artistic development at various art academies, she completed her studies at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern. Of particular importance was her training at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, where she deepened her studies in painting in the academic sense. The tireless use of pencil, charcoal and brush reveals her educational background in her artistic work.

The artist dabbles in various formats, often confronting the genres of self-portraiture and portraits, whether of acquaintances or strangers, often in the rococo style, which are the result of in-depth research and meticulously rendered in different scales. The effort of the technical procedure combines them with an ironic and dreamy language achieved through collage, a technique that creates a dissonant tension between different styles and eras.

In Fabiola Di Fulvio’s works, the unrelated is collected and shaped. Lightness and heaviness overlap, different things find each other. This game of putting together something that does not belong together, this collage between fantasy and reality, permeates all levels, including the creation of the work itself, which is often executed with very different techniques. The works become a kind of re-bus. But their peculiarity lies in the fact that they cannot be detached.

As in dreams, the collages are an accumulation of parts that tell ambiguous and infinite stories; infinite precisely because they are a union of fragments and as such are never finished and in constant transformation.
What would a dream be without its incomprehensibility?
Dreams are not only images, they are much more: they are language, narrative and their negation at the same time. Dreams – one could say with Fabiola Di Fulvio’s works – are collagen and collages are dreams and sketches of other worlds.

In the exhibition ‹still› (a play on words between the English expression for still life and the German adjective still), we present, among other things, new mysterious works by Fabiola Di Fulvio. For example, charcoal drawings on spout and collages are transformed into ambiguous works by means of LED lighting. As this is the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, the new works are combined with some older works and show a cross-section of Fabiola Di Fulvio’s oeuvre.