Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Fábio Colaço

Fábio Colaço, is a young Portuguese artist, who presents his first solo exhibition at ADN Galeria. By inviting viewers to enter into a complex dialogue of references in an exhibition route that fictionalizes the symbolic structure of a house, the visitor can observe the materialization of concerns in our daily lives. A dystopian reality, an intricate web of associations that reflect the structural fabric of time and history.

Colaço’s works open space for critical reflection and transcend the traditional limits of sculpture, his main area of artistic training. The pieces use alternative materials and devices, adapting each technique to different investigations. The works as a whole reveal a concentration of cultural references, especially linked to the history of art, which demonstrates their symbolic and iconographic power in the context of the contemporary cultural industry. Thus, the subversive nature of the works and also their irony create allegories that facilitate new interpretations by the viewer. In each title there is an analysis value of certain collective social nowadays traumas, where our economic system takes center stage. This is helped by the inclusion of pieces that use an element that integrates several of them as a raw material shaped by the artist: money.