Meet Laia Fabre | Artist

We had the good fortune of connecting with Laia Fabre and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Laia, we’d love to hear what makes you happy.
to be dedicated of what I am doing and be passionate about it. It give me freedom
 

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
I am combining performance art with visual art, and this allows me to create innovative and immersive experiences for the audience. some specific projects or performances which I am very proud and significant to me are for example Hotsprings- which proposed an occasion to spend a good and exciting time together and worked on the levels of the metaphoric, the poetic, the imagistic, the enigmatic and the suggestive. Hotsprings was wet and hard. In the performance, the sexually explicit and the linguistically explicit were flip sides of a political act of exposure. Was a blood flow, fluidity, action, energy, stimulation, and visual interest that took its audience on a walk into a world of desires and imaginations.
Most recently I created Raw- an extend invitations in multiple directions: to international artists of any field to chefs established in Vienna. An intersectionof Kunst (art) and Kochen (cooking) –
Often I do collaborations with other artist and that is very exciting and rewarding too.
My artistic journey begins when I moved from Barcelona-Spain to studying at the acclaimed Academie of Fine Arts Vienna where I have spend many years experimenting ang trying things, it has been a great place for inspiration, exchange and influenced mine development as an artist.
Since I have started presenting work I have experience challenges and I have learn to embracing failure but still there has been success in creating work that links audiences together and unifies them as part of the live event, building a temporary community. I like to work with codes that are established by society and play with them. I like to work with language.I like how it shapes our world and how it re-shapes the world through speaking about it. I like found texts, photos and materials and are interested in re-writing contemporary spaces and encouraging audiences to re-consider theses spaces themselves. I like mundane movements and arbitrary gestures. I like cheap television shows and late night entertainment and the people presenting it. I like to sit in front of the computer, clicking the save button and believing this is saving everything around us. I like spaces that are something and say something else. I like tiled hotel lobbies with displaced leather sofas. I like to overhear conversations in crowded trams and busses. I like wild and wondrous stories. I like boring everyday stories. I like to tell all kinds of stories.
Creation in my view is dirty but pleasurable business – you are stuck in a room, sometimes with friends and really that’s all there is to it – with all the joy and disappointment of making work. But then the work emerges slowly in front of your eyes and takes shape.
That’s fun and this is why I do work.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
I would wake up in Vienna and go for Breakfast to a classic vienese café in the first district, like Corb. Then visit some museum or art institution, maybe around the Museum Quartier- Kunsthalle or Vienna Secession. Afterwards take a walk through the market-Nachmarkt and the Stadt Park, coffe break and lunch menu at the Englander. Spend the afternoon strolling around the ViennaKanal, the former arm of the river Danube.
Probably then go for a good movie at the most beautiful cinema ever Gartenbaukino- a place of glamorous premieres with prominent guests.
Dinner at the Kleines café and for a late drink the famous Loos American bar-famed for its near-perfect espresso martinis and art deco interior designed by revered Austrian architect Adolf Loos. Low-lit and intimate.
Probably then I would be up for some dancing before going to bed at the 90’s Celeste club.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
The Forced Entertainment artist group Sophie Calle
Judy Chicago
Valie Export
Cy Twombly
Jarvis Cocker
Rosalia
Chantal AKerman
Werner Herzog
Fran Lebowitz
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Roberto Bolaño
Noma, René Redzepi
Many Travels to many different continents

Website: www.laiafabre.com – www.notfoundyet.net

Instagram: @laiiafabrre

Other: google laia fabre and you’ll find me doing things

Image Credits
(c) Laia Fabre (c) Paul Gasser (c) Dani Pujalte