"Flutuante 3" Sculpture - Limited Edition of 5

Fabiana Preti (1979) lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. Trained in industrial design, she investigates formal precision, gestural control, and repetition in her artistic practice. She began her research in tilework, exploring patterns of shapes and colors applied to ceramics. Over time, her interest in materiality came to the forefront, leading her geometric compositions onto textiles such as velvet, leather, jute, and linen, in which the support and its porosity become central elements. In her practice, the repetitive gesture takes on a meditative character, constituting not only a formal procedure but also a way of thinking about time, the body, space, and presence. Preti shows an increasing interest in handcrafts, moving between painting, sculpture, and embroidery, challenging the boundaries between fine arts and 'craft. In the repetition of the stitch and the line, she finds a poetics of making. This focus on repetition and manual work rescues the memory of female domestic labor, re-signifying it as a form of aesthetic and existential investigation. These practices allow her to explore the three-dimensionality and sensoriality of materials, bridging the preservation of traditional knowledge with the experimentation of contemporary art.