Fabiana de Barros
| Fabiana de Barros | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 27, 1957 São Paulo |
| Nationality | Brazilian-Swiss |
| Website | http://fabmic.ch |
Fabiana de Barros (born November 27, 1957 in São Paulo) is a Swiss artist of Brazilian origin. She is the daughter of one of the most striking figures of Brazilian photography and modern art, Geraldo de Barros. She works and lives in Geneva and São Paulo.
While studying at the Faculdade de Artes Plasticas of São Paulo, Fabiana de Barros also studied with the painter Antonio Carelli. In 1985, she obtains a grant for a study trip abroad and lands in Geneva. There she meets the artist Carmen Perrin, with whom she continues her postgrade studies at the in Geneva. She then shifts from painting to sculpture, broadens her work to installations and gets involved with public art.
This artist loves to create contacts, nets of relationships and that her art pieces are the result of multiple dynamics. Very soon, recurrent themes appear in her work: travels, mega-cities, the urban context, the relationships between individuals, and the power of social context.
In 1987, Fabiana de Barros had her first individual exhibition in Geneva. Tours du monde will be then shown at São Paulo Museum of Art. In 1988, she was invited to the 20th Biennale of São Paulo, where she will be a guest many times over the years.
In 1991, Fabiana de Barros met the Swiss photographer, video and film maker Michel Favre, to whom she is married today. He introduced her to photography, video and the World Wide Web. Their collaboration is very intense in all fields.
In 1994, during the Biennale of São Paulo, they launched Migraçoes, a transatlantic art happening where 17 Swiss artists are invited to São Paulo to create in situ in three different museums: the São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound, the São Paulo Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo.
For the exhibition Migraçoes, Fabiana de Barros and Michel Favre worked together for the first time as artists. They launched Aller-Retour, a travel agency situated in a confined space where Fabiana meets people, proposing an imaginary trip based on drawings and paintings. Aller-Retour grew over the years to become a video installation and a series of photos.
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