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STRINGERE

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s a series of works created using concertina barbed wire — the razor-edged type employed along military borders. The project, initiated in 2023, was also presented on the occasion of PARÀ DÓXA, the solo exhibition at @galleria.lampo. These sculptures are made from galvanized steel coils, welded and transformed into sculptural forms. The overall project extends to approximately 40 kilometers, mirroring the length of the Gaza Strip. The coils vary in size and weight: • Ø 69 cm, 500 m of wire → 30–40 kg • Ø 150 cm, 1000 m of wire → approx. 100 kg Each element is painted pink on one side and blue on the other, turning a material conceived to wound into one that evokes an infantile, almost toy-like aesthetic — a disarming transformation of violence into delicate illusion.

Natura Posthuma

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“Natura Posthuma” — Optical Fiber Nest by Fabio Weik, 2025 Optical-fiber kamikaze drones are employed in warfare to transmit data and deliver destructive attacks with bombs. Yet, the remote-control signals are often disrupted. The thin cables that connect them—stretching over 30 kilometers—are frequently scattered across fields, eventually becoming entangled with the natural landscape. Some birds, unaware of their origin, use these remnants to build their nests. A relic of death, serving as protection for life. The result is a hybrid form that exposes the short circuit between nature and war, life and pollution. It belongs to an archaeology of the present, where technological debris is not merely a trace but a living substance infiltrating the biological cycle. It materializes the notion of post-nature, in which the organic and the inorganic collapse into a single form.

Black Friday

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This project reproduces in scale a destroyed urban landscape. A suspended IV bag slowly releases a red liquid resembling blood. The progressive dripping physically erodes the model beneath, built with fragile materials such as sand and PVC. The intervention is part of a series dedicated to airstrikes carried out on Gaza, each titled after the official names of Israeli military operations. Every installation is visible only once. At the end, all that remains is a video document, presented in the following exhibition. PVC, sand, cement, synthetic blood pigment, programmed drip-release mechanism Site specific self-destructive installation Variable duration (from 72 to 120 hours) Disintegration becomes language. Blood functions as a device. The project vanishes to remain in memory.

Mechanical Archangel series

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Fabio Weik’s project stages a collision between a machine of death and the fragile persistence of nature. The structure recalls the outline of kamikaze drones deployed in the current war between Russia and Ukraine, devices programmed to erase life from a distance, their attacks circulating endlessly through social media feeds. These images of vertical descents, of targets consumed by a remote eye, constitute a new grammar of war, a vision in which sight itself becomes execution.

FINIS solo show for ORVIETO CINEMA FEST/MUSEO OPERA DI ORVIETO

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“FINIS” by Fabio Weik curata da Alice Lazzaroni Dopo aver presentato la serie “-BALLA!-” la prima volta presso gli spazi dell’ex scalo ferroviario di Porta Genova e successivamente presso la Chiesa consacrata di San Bartolo sull’Isola di Stromboli vincendo un premio menzione d’onore della Regione Sicilia, Fabio Weik accetta l’invito di Orvieto Cinema Fest portando… Continua a leggere FINIS solo show for ORVIETO CINEMA FEST/MUSEO OPERA DI ORVIETO

PARÁ DÓXA

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The title of the exhibition comes from the Greek etymon of the word 'paradox,' a contradiction that refers to the concept of the series of works presented, in which the artist reflects on crucial social issues with a veil of aesthetic tenderness. Part of the body of work is represented by oil paintings and printed plates, featuring the diving birds Sule together with the species of the flying fish, the inspiration comes from the repertoire of images personally archived by the artist from documentaries of the 1980s. The interest in the two animal species stems from their defiance of the elements that naturally host their habitats: the Suleys dive toward the sea like rockets from the sky, the fish fly through the air in a desperate movement to escape a hostile environment and predators. Both represent a metaphor of forced adaptation, dictated by survival, and they are compared to humanity's behavior during times of conflict. Just as in a battlefield, the exhibition space is demarcated by a barbed wire installation that indicates a compulsory path of visitation, along which narrow coils are scattered in tensioned scuplture and become additional martial symbols within the exhibition. In contrast to the hostile, bounded environment, Parà Dóxa's body of work is presented in muted colors of pinkish and blue hues that act as 'filters' or visual devices applied to the two- dimensional works and to the wire installation, making the exhibition seemingly alienating and drawing the viewer into a reflection on the dissonances of the conflicts of natural and human life.

ADATTAMENTO COMPLESSO NATURALE

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PREMIO STROMBOLI presenta “ADATTAMENTO COMPLESSO NATURALE” curata da Fabio Weik a Stromboli dal 12 al 17 Luglio 2023. Il progetto prende parte nella sezione “Fuori Premio”, è ideato e curato da studio WEIK (curatore Fabio Weik, co-curatrice Alice Lazzaroni) . Gli spettatori verranno coinvolti in un percorso multidisciplinare che comprende opere, performance e interventi urbani e video arte di artisti internazionali quali: Franko B, Vesod, Fabio Weik, William Cobbing, Mathery Studio, Dies_ (otolab) e molto altri.