Fabia Escobar

What memories linger in a discarded object?

My work as a visual artist explores the invisible stories and social energies embedded in materials once used, loved, and thrown away. Since 2014, I’ve been working primarily with discarded wood and fragments of everyday objects, treating them not as waste but as witnesses of human presence.

With a background in graphic and product design, I’m deeply aware of how design often distances the creator from the final object. In contrast, my artistic practice brings me back to the material—its texture, history, and scars. I deconstruct what was abandoned and reassemble it into new visual rhythms, where layout, balance, and tension gain symbolic weight.

Each composition is carefully structured, yet evokes the randomness of how things are found in the trash—stacked, scattered, forgotten. In giving these fragments new visibility, I invite the viewer to reflect on impermanence, transformation, and the silent narratives hidden in the everyday.

2008–2009 – Université Sophia Antipolis – Nice, France
Postgraduate studies in Art Direction for Multimedia Projects
1992–1996 – FAAP (Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado) – São Paulo, Brazil
Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design
1987–1991 – SENAI Theobaldo de Nigris – São Paulo, Brazil
Technical Degree in Graphic Design

Solo Exhibitions

2023 – Recomposto, Zupi Space Gallery – São Paulo, Brazil
2017 – Variância do Mundo, Solo de Guarapiranga Cultural Center – São Paulo, Brazil

Group Exhibitions

2023 – Trânsito Tecido, Galpão556 Gallery – São Paulo, Brazil
2023 – Acervo Zupi, Catavento Museum – São Paulo, Brazil
2023 – Quanto Tempo Temos, Design Weekend SP, curated by Somauma Arquitetura – São Paulo, Brazil
2022 – O Tempo das Coisas, Design Weekend SP, curated by Barrafunda Autoral – São Paulo, Brazil
2018 – 1 Ano, Crua Gallery – São Paulo, Brazil
2017 – Diversidade de Estilos, Casa Jacarepaguá – São Paulo, Brazil
2016 – Tributos – III Urban Art Show, Fazenda da Posse Cultural Center – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil