Works
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Bread to the people, 2026 -
Truth on the Brink of Collapse, 2025
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Who killed the world?, 2025
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Fail, 2025
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Flooded Europe, 2025
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Grace, 2025
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Utopia, 2024
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Untitled (truth), 2024
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Untitled (concetto spaziale), 2024
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Untitled (timeline), 2024
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Untitled (1984), 2024
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Untitled (concetto spaziale), 2024
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Untitled (concetto spaziale), 2024
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Untitled (concetto spaziale), 2024
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Untitled (concetto spaziale), 2024
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Untitled (concetto spaziale), 2024
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God Shoes #10, 2024
Installation shots
Biography
Fábio Colaço was born in Lisbon, where he lives and works.
Although Fábio Colaço engages with a wide spectrum of artistic languages, his practice is principally centred on sculpture, which functions as the primary medium through which he articulates his conceptual inquiries. His work is deeply invested in a critical examination of the complex interplay between power and language, exploring the ways in which discourses, visual representations, and symbolic structures are produced, disseminated, and normalized within contemporary society. Through this exploration, the artist interrogates the mechanisms by which authority, meaning, and social conventions are established, maintained, and internalized, shedding light on the subtle processes through which normative frameworks are constructed.
Irony, humour, and subversion constitute recurring and transversal elements within his practice, operating not merely as stylistic features but as deliberate strategies for challenging entrenched paradigms and destabilizing conventional perceptions. These devices enable his work to operate simultaneously as critique and reflection, fostering a space in which viewers are encouraged to reconsider habitual frameworks of understanding and to engage with alternative interpretations and possibilities within the contemporary sociocultural landscape.
Irony, humour, and subversion constitute recurring and transversal elements within his practice, operating not merely as stylistic features but as deliberate strategies for challenging entrenched paradigms and destabilizing conventional perceptions. These devices enable his work to operate simultaneously as critique and reflection, fostering a space in which viewers are encouraged to reconsider habitual frameworks of understanding and to engage with alternative interpretations and possibilities within the contemporary sociocultural landscape.
Exhibitions
News
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Fábio Colaço at ...daquele que é (des)objeto III
May 21, 2025Fábio Colaço participates at ...daquele que é (des)objeto III at Fundação Leal Rios, Lisboa.More information -
No entiendo el arte
Podcast March 27, 2025¿Quieres saber cómo funciona el mundo del arte y entender las obras contemporáneas ? Te llevamos a un paseo sonoro por ARCO , la feria...More information -
El lavavajillas lleno de líderes de la ultraderecha comprado por 25.000 euros y las otras ventas (que se conocen) de Arco
El País - Ana Marcos March 11, 2025Como sucede cada año, Arco cerrará su 44º edición y solo dará una cifra, la de asistentes, en esta ocasión, han superado los 95.000 visitantes...More information -
ADN Galeria: llibertat creativa, feminisme i crítica social
bonart January 23, 2025ADN Galeria presenta tres exposicions que, des de perspectives diverses, aborden temes universals: la llibertat creativa impulsada pel surrealisme i la seva redefinició dels límits...More information -
Fábio Colaço at ADN Galeria / Barcelona
Daily Lazy December 27, 2024Fábio Colaço is a young Portuguese artist who presents his first solo exhibition at ADN Galeria: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW . The exhibition is a critical...More information -
Yesterday, today, tomorrow
Meer December 21, 2024Fábio Colaço es un joven artista portugués que presenta su primera exposición individual en ADN Galeria. En ella el visitante puede observar una materialización de...More information -
ADN Galeria (Barcelona) presenta una triple inauguración de exposiciones
exibart December 5, 2024Se trata de ‘Womankind’; ‘Yesterday, Today, Tormorrow’ y ‘Superfcitions 1924 - 2024: The Existence Lies Somewhere Else’, una exposición colectiva que conmemora 100 años de...More information
