Fabiana Preti

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 conte...

Industrial Design at Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP, 2002)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 | Achego. Massapê Projetos, São Paulo. Text by Felipe Barros de Britto
2022 | Arapuca. Bomblô, São Paulo. Curatorship and text by Theo Monteiro
2022 | Arestas. Massapê Projetos, São Paulo. Text by Juliana Monachesi
2020 | LuzAzuL. Galeria Thomas Baccaro, São Paulo. Text by Guilherme Teixeira
2019 | Ditongo. Massapê Projetos, São Paulo. Text by Danilo Oliveira

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 | Fresta. Gruta, São Paulo. Curatorial support by Thierry Freitas
2025 | Caleidoscópio. Castelinho do Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro. Curated by Francela Carrera and Ana Carla Soler
2025 | Art > Cabinet. Art in Brackets, Brooklyn, NY
2025 | Ambitude. Massapê Projetos, São Paulo. Text and curatorship by Ana Roman
2024 | Líquen Teso. Galatea, São Paulo. Text by Fernanda Morse
2021 | ........ seu poema. Massapê Projetos, São Paulo. Text and curatorship by Vivi Villanova
2019 | Vida. Instituto de Artes da UNESP, São Paulo. Curated by Lilian Bado
2019 | Istmo. Galeria Caribé, São Paulo
2019 | Tardes de Terça. Centro Histórico e Cultural Mackenzie, São Paulo
2018 | Arte Formatto. Rua Colômbia, São Paulo
2018 | Canvas. Alphaville, São Paulo
2018 | Ocupação Studio Luiz Martins. Studio Luiz Martins, Barra Funda, São Paulo