NAPHTA TRIBE & IMPERMANENCE
17 May - 29 June 2022
Frédérick Mouraux Gallery is honoured to continue the two exhibitions by Fab Rideti “Naphta Tribe” & “Impermanece” within the Black Pearl Building of the European Commission in Brussels.
Born in France, Fab Rideti spent a few years in Seattle, before moving to Brussels in 2015. With a plastic, even aesthetic approach, Fab Rideti produces engaged works of art, impregnated by the great contemporary questions, scrutinising human fragility as much as the flaws of our societies. Within her work, the themes of play, representation and spectacle are recurrent. She draws us into her theatrical, fantastic universe, often tinged with derision, which seduces us, only to reach us again: she confuses us with a second reading that challenges us. Falsely perfect images that surprise us when we least expect it. She addresses the inner child within us.
The artist stages her photographs by creating imaginary characters that she dresses up in her own way, like a play that she tells to make us dream and think. So many stories without words, suspended tales through which Fab Rideti depicts the human condition.
Fab Rideti is a finalist for the 18th Open Photography Prize of the Charleroi Museum of Photography in 2021.
Fab Rideti, as an artist committed to the planet, part of the profits will be donated to the Foundation Tara Océan.
NAPHTA TRIBES
This set of photographs shows with respect and humour a tribe dressed in plastic waste from the oceans. A call to conscience and to the responsibility of Man in the face of the “Dirtiness” of nature.
NAPHTA TRIBES is a pure product of the overconsumption of the 80’s, Fab Rideti questions today the vacuity of our quest to have and the capacity of Man to persist in his errors. With this new series, Naphta Tribes, she makes us aware of the abusive use of plastic and its impact on the oceans.
Inspired by Edward Curtis when he immortalised the American Indians, Fab Rideti photographs the last representatives of our civilisation, the “founders” of the 7th continent **. Before the world chan- ged, before ecological awareness made these portraits
inconceivable.
This series laughs at consumerism and our cult of appearance. Like derisory warriors, her characters adorn themselves in plastic, a material they claim to be noble when in fact it is causing their downfall.
Fab Rideti depicts with a certain tenderness our vanity and blindness when nature cries out to us for a return to the authentic. However, she prefers humour to guilt to get our attention.
Fab Rideti, as an artist committed to the planet, part of the profits will be donated to the Foundation Tara Océan.
IMPERMANENCE
This immaginary gallery of superb photographs of young girls in an evocation of the Renaissance or Dutch style, adorned with recycled clothes and accessories. Adolescence.... Yes, but already in BECOMING!
Fab Rideti once again questions appearance and the relationship to self-image.
Being a teenager in the 2020s, beyond the passage to adulthood, means being at the heart of fundamental and complex changes: the relationship to one’s own image and that of others through the omnipresence of social networks, the loss of ideological or spiritual reference points, the permanent movement of the world around them.
Addressing the child in them, Fab Rideti dresses them in costumes that she makes with second-hand clothes and recycled materials, thus depriving them of the artificial external signs of power. She immerses them in the atmosphere of Dutch painting, in the manner of renaissance portraitists. Temporarily stripping themselves of their personalities and adopting a different one allows them to unleash their true selves. Fab Rideti captures striking portraits of strong, confident women as young as 13 to 15 years old.
Fab Rideti creates an imaginary gallery of 21st century portraits of great women in the making. She invites them to find their inner voice and to transform the world as they wish, far from the dictates of brands or fashion.
