Descripción de la Exposición
UMA LULIK__ is pleased to invite you to Tomorrow, first solo show by Fábio Colaço at the gallery, curated by Ana Cristina Cachola.
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"(...). Fábio Colaço is a neo-conceptual artist because, although he builds his work on the idea-concept-object triad, he admits gestures of form and expression, more or less contained, in his practice. These gestures result in a body of work in which formalism - the formal importance of the work of art - is also relevant to the meanings it produces.
In Tomorrow, he presents reflections on a suspended future in a time of capitalist realism, using Mark Fisher's expression, who coined the term to describe the current political situation, in which it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of the capitalist system. Like Fisher, the artist presents examples from everyday life and popular culture to demonstrate that capitalism has gone from the world's ideology to the world's ontology, making it almost impossible to imagine a viable alternative to the prevailing financial, economic, social and cultural model.
The works that make up the exhibition are thus part of a decodable image lingua franca, common to (at least) the western "side" of the planet. From the West, one problematizes western-centric dynamics. Using the tools of the capitalist model, exercising their critique, icons and symbols inhabit the exhibition space. With its title, an opaque crystal ball cries out No Future, evoking a general feeling of pessimism about the possibility of a future. Fed by recent data on the climate emergency and adverse health and sanitary forecasts, this feeling has been spreading alongside a growing awareness of the limits and shortcomings of our social states that increasingly condemn most of the world's population to precarity.(...)"
in Tomorrow is never promised, by Ana Cristina Cachola
February 2023
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Fábio Colaço (1995) was born in Lisbon, where he lives and works.
Colaço holds a degree in Sculpture and a masters degree in Performance and Installation from Faculdade de Belas-Artes in Lisbon. He also studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. Colaço exhibits regularly in Portugal and abroad in solo and group exhibitions, highlighting the exhibitions: (2020) “One Million”, Appleton Box, Lisbon, PT; (2020) “Trabalho Capital # Greve Geral”, curated by Paulo Mendes, Centro de Arte Oliva, São João da Madeira, PT; (2020) “5 Años de Atelier Solar”, curated by Alejandro Alonso Moro, Cruce, Madrid, ES; (2019) “Prémio Arte Jovem Fundação Millennium BCP”, Centro Português de Serigrafia, Lisbon, PT; (2019) “I Will Take the Risk”, curated by Car- olina Trigueiros e Tomaz Hipólito, Azan, Lisbon, PT; (2018) “Where Plato Taught”, curated by Christian Jankowski, Franzens- feste/Fortezza, Bolzano, IT; (2018) “Jahresausstellung”, Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Munich, DE; (2017) “Ciclo do Liminar #9”, Zaratan - Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, PT; (2016) “in possível - com n... entrar na possibilidade”, Arquipélago - Centro de Artes Contemporâneas, Azores, PT.
In 2016, he was nominated for “Artes e Talentos” award, the winner of “Revelação D. Fernando II” award in 2017, and more recently, the winner of “Arte Jovem Fundação Millennium BCP” award in 2019.
Fábio Colaço is represented by UMA LULIK__ since September 2022
Exposición. 17 dic de 2024 - 16 mar de 2025 / Museo Picasso Málaga / Málaga, España
Formación. 01 oct de 2024 - 04 abr de 2025 / PHotoEspaña / Madrid, España
