Fabiola Burgos Labra
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Photo credits 1: Fabiola Burgos Labra, Mummies – mami (kiwi), courtesy the artist 2: Fabiola Burgos Labra, Structure that Builds Space Also Confines It (2023) courtesy the artist & Vandenbussche 3: Fabiola Burgos Labra, Ways to Return Home (2023), courtesy of the artist. 4: Image of wild blackberry, Bijgaardepark Gent, courtesy the artist 5: Fabiola Burgos Labra, Mummies – mami (onions), courtesy the artist 6: Fabiola Burgos Labra, Stamford NY Tree Branches (2022), courtesy the artist and Felipe Mujica
Fabiola Burgos Labra (1984, Chile) is currently living and working in Brussels, Belgium. She mainly works with sculpture, textiles, and precarious found objects and materials. She has organized and produced several exhibitions and interventions in the public space, focusing mostly on markets and popular fairs. She is currently working on projects that prioritize the ephemeral/tactile over the stable/visual, where she reflects on the boundaries between nature and culture that modernity has generated.
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.
Fabiola Burgos Labra – Mummies-mami (red pepper) (2024)
Fabiola Burgos Labra – Mummies-mami (yellow pepper) (2025)
Fabiola Burgos Labra – Chirríu, chirríu (red and yellow onions) (2025)
Fabiola Burgos Labra began carefully crocheting around small fruits and vegetables years ago, while still living in Chile. This approach allowed her to transform the making of an artwork into a form of care — a process of dressing, holding and spending time with slowly disintegrating bodies, letting them leave their traces and eventually mummify in textile skins.
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