SUNRISE I Print

The flavor of diversity The Fake Bake Project “You have to be ready for the opportunity, it will come at any moment.” Thoughts need to be well-oiled for when you need to pull them out of the trunk. In an age of visual overexposure, it is hard. Our revived memory can cause us very terrible mind games, confusing others’ realities with our own... I met Fernanda Lobeira in a way that is not usual for "normal people". For those of us who dedicate ourselves to art, it is something common: you see a piece that interests you, you learn, you ask who is the artist then you follow him/her. That was my approach. I discovered her art piece "Intersections VII (Orange)" mixed media, 230 x 130 cm. 2021, through an Instagram story, yes! Later in a conversation with her, I realized -involuntarily- that she was the creator of that wooden structure canvas with textile interventions. I found it interesting to observe how an emerging artist could venture into Salvatore Scarpitta's (New York 1919-2007) terrain with boldness and brazenness. Without fear of experimenting in a conceptual field, she dominates the form, using her manual dexterity and a great capacity for structure. It develops loosely in the limited space of the frame. These pieces have great complexity, not only visually but also stylistically, because the light is fundamental for the folding game. Fernanda knows this and dares, not only in this piece but in all the collections that she generates. Born in Monterrey, she prepared herself intensely to be able to boldly recreate three-dimensional visual panoramas. Most of her pieces are wall sculptures. They leave shyness aside and take over the visual landscape, starring it. For somebody who is close to one of them, just be careful. Her vocation for the plastic arts did not happen by chance, since she was very young when she experimented with different ways of making art. Although at the beginning she did not want to recognize it as such, life had led her to another frenzy, the high pastry. Thus she began and continued preparing herself in specialized schools from Asia to America, that invaluable cultural background allowed her to experiment with her two passions. Trial and error. Because she is a structured and organized woman, she prefers that "everything is ready" before coming to light, that’s the reason for her second pseudonym: Bake.