IMPERMANENCE
13 March - 30 April 2022
Frédérick Mouraux Gallery is honored to present a captivating collection of works of art by Fab Rideti for her first solo exhibitions in Brussels.
Born in France, Fab Rideti spent a few years in Seattle, before moving to Brussels in 2015. With a plastic, even aesthetic approach, Fab Rideti produces engaged works of art, impregnated by the great contemporary questions, scrutinising human fragility as much as the flaws of our societies. Within her work, the themes of play, representation and spectacle are recurrent. She draws us into her theatrical, fantastic universe, often tinged with derision, which seduces us, only to reach us again: she confuses us with a second reading that challenges us. Falsely perfect images that surprise us when we least expect it. She addresses the inner child within us.
The artist stages her photographs by creating imaginary characters that she dresses up in her own way, like a play that she tells to make us dream and think. So many stories without words, suspended tales through which Fab Rideti depicts the human condition.
Fab Rideti is a finalist for the 18th Open Photography Prize of the Charleroi Museum of Photography in 2021.
Gallery of superb photographs of young girls in an evocation of the Renaissance or Dutch style, adorned with recycled clothes and accessories.
Adolescence.... Yes, but already in BECOMING!
IMPERMANENCE
In the second space of the Gallery: the exhibition IMPERMANENCE: a gallery of portraits of teenage girls. Fab Rideti once again questions appearance and the relationship to self-image.
Being a teenager in the 2020s, beyond the passage to adulthood, means being at the heart of fundamental and complex changes: the relationship to one’s own image and that of others through the omnipresence of social networks, the loss of ideological or spiritual reference points, the permanent movement of the world around them.
Addressing the child in them, Fab Rideti dresses them in costumes that she makes with second-hand clothes and recycled materials, thus depriving them of the artificial external signs of power. She immerses them in the atmosphere of Dutch painting, in the manner of renaissance portraitists. Temporarily stripping themselves of their personalities and adopting a different one allows them to unleash their true selves. Fab Rideti captures striking portraits of strong, confident women as young as 13 to 15 years old.
Fab Rideti creates an imaginary gallery of 21st century portraits of great women in the making. She invites them to find their inner voice and to transform the world as they wish, far from the dictates of brands or fashion.
Please find below a selection of images.
© Fab Rideti
© Fab Rideti
© Fab Rideti
© Fab Rideti