Fabiola Burgos Labra (b. 1984, Chile, Osorno)
CV
Statement
Fabiola Burgos Labra's works can be read as representations of, or moments in, a layered process-based practice. In them, she explores topics of gender, colonization, her own family history and our culturally determined relationship with materials. In search of different approaches to these materials and objects, she manages to create meaningful and sensitive sculptures and installations through simple gestures and fragile materials.
Burgos Labra's work subverts the dominant assumptions about the art object that shape the very framework of the art market. The friction with prevailing conceptions of completeness, permanence, object value and ownership is driven to its extreme in the context of the art fair.
Burgos Labra is currently living and working in Brussels, Belgium. She studied art at PUCV in Valparaíso and completed an MFA degree at PUC in Santiago, and is also a Laureate from HISK (2022- 2023). She mainly works with sculpture, textiles, and precarious found objects and materials. In September 2025, she will start a one-year research project at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp within the Art & Ecology research group. The project seeks to reconnect with textiles by valorizing and humanizing the relationship between weaver and material, offering a way to resist the dichotomy between time and production in industrialized societies.
gatos, yo cuido solo a uno que se llama
Pedro (J.T) (2023), Tree branches from
Ghent, nails and glue, 45 x 1 x 1 cm.