Siegfried Contemporary is proud to showcase the work of artist Eva Fabregas in a historic house in the old town of Basel for the duration of Art Basel 2022.
Eva Fàbregas’ (1988, Barcelona. Lives and works in London) practice explores the erotica of the consumer object and the engineering mechanisms of desire, through sculpture, video, installation and sound. Her interest in affections has led her to produce works that address wellness and relaxation culture, psychodrama and the marketing industry, as well as therapeutic subcultures on social media.
Her big, bold, sculptural forms oscillate between natural and prosthetic, materially traversing binaries of soft and hard, and interacting with our bodies with or without touching them.
Fàbregas toys with fantasy; her understanding that the satisfaction of desire is deeply reliant on our inability to touch, sense, or feel what we so deeply wish to remains at the core of these works. In producing more libidinousness than she satisfies, Fàbregas reminds us that desire must always be left unfulfilled in order to exist.
Her recent exhibitions include: London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022); Vessels, Bombon Projects (2022); Skin-like. Kunsthal, Gent (2021); Gut Feeling. Centrocentro, Madrid; Those things that your fingers can tell. Kunstverein München, Munich (2019); Every object is a thing but not everything is an object, Hollybush Gardens, London; Who cares? A radio tale, Gasworks / Resonance 104.4 FM, London (2018); First Act: Smooth Operations, Laure Gewnillard Gallery, London (2017-2018); Picture yourself as a block of melting butter, Fundació Miró, Barcelona; 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)
