Working with soft and malleable materials, Fàbregas’ practice embraces tactile engagement, physical intimacy, sensorial relation and multiple forms of somatic experimentation with and through objects. Liberated from the constraints of biology, desire and affect are allowed to flow in all directions, blurring the distinction between organic and inorganic matter. In her practice, touch is a primary source of knowledge. Her work is about learning through one’s fingers and the sculptures are often reminiscent of body organs and voluptuous glands, but she also looks at prosthetics as well as non-human life-forms such as corals, polyps and the reproductive parts of plants. Fàbregas’ work belongs to the realm of the somatic, the experiential, the guttural and the unnamable. It aims to fully inhabit the world of the senses, invoking a pre-linguistic stage to imagine other possible bodies, other ways of feeling, caring and being in the world.
Gallery Exhibitions
Eva Fàbregas (b.1988 in Barcelona) lives and works in Barcelona. Her practice embraces sculpture, installation and drawing.
Her recent solo exhibitions include: Exudates, MAC Mataró, MANIFESTA 15, (2024); Devouring Lovers, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2023); Enredos, Centro Botín, Santander (2023); Growths, Biennale de Lyon, (2022); Vessels, Bombon Projects (2022); Skin-like. Kunsthal, Gent (2021); Gut Feeling, Centrocentro, Madrid (2019); Those things that your fingers can tell, Kunstverein Munchen, Munich (2019); Polifilia, García Galería, Madrid (2019); First Act: Smooth Operations. Laure Genillard Gallery, London (2017); Picture yourself as a block of melting butter. Fundació Miró, Barcelona (2017); Systems for displaying matter. Enclave, London (2016); Unforeseen Changes. The Green Parrot, Barcelona (2014), among others.
Her group exhibitions include Poetic Intention, MACBA, Barcelona, (2024); When forms come alive, Hayward Gallery, London (2024); The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022); La próxima mutación. Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona (2021); Touch Me Not. The Ryder, Madrid (2021); Un Momento Atemporal. Tabacalera, Madrid (2020); Yokohama Triennale 2020. Yokohama Museum of Art (2020); Myths of the near future. TEA, Tenerife (2019); Polymeric Lust. Arte Display. Berlin (2019); Every object is a thing but not everything is an object, Hollybush Gardens, London (2018); Who cares? A radio tale, Gasworks / Resonance 104.4 FM, London (2018); Eyecatcher, Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (2017); Scissors cut paper wrap stone, Ormoston House, Limerick, West Cork Center, Cork and CCA Derry ~ Londonderry (2017 and 2016); Systems for displaying matter, Enclave, London; The Role of Unintended consequences, Syndicate, Cologne; Teesside world exposition of art and technology, MIMA, Middlesbrough; Soft control, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh (2016); How are you feeling today ?, Window Space (Whitechapel), London (2015); Eva Fàbregas & Andrew Lacon, Kunstraum, London (2014), among others.
Selected solo exhibitions
2024
2023
2022
2019
2017
Selected group exhibitions
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018