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= FABISOLA JEAN-LOUIS =

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Fabisola Jean-Louis is a fine artist and photographer who is currently based out of Brooklyn, N.Y.. she is a Haitian born. she was a little girl growing up in New york as at the, she was surrounded by art and beautiful characters. she is one of the artists whose imagery correctly blends magic with the mundane and reality with the speculative to bring the non-exit world to an existing world. she uses stunning styles that hunt such as moody, dreamy, magical, and mysterious, along with her talent for visual story story-telling. Jean-Louis is an outstanding artist.she is known as a visionary who knows how to manifest diverse patterns of space-time, costume design and surrealiasm within the words of her art. she has been on her craft for a four and a half year but she is already making waves in art. fabisola is acclaimed work has already been featured in:Artnet News, Atlantan Modern Luxury, Art Critical, Atlanta Journal Constitution, BK Reader, Blavity, Fashion Studies Journal, HuffPost, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, MOYI, and StyleBlueprint. Her current iteration of Rewriting History is being exhibited by, Smithsonian affiliated, DuSable Museum of African American History. She was once a buddhist which she had to let go for the thought of creating something gorgeous and beautiful then she would to throw it away. she belives that Paper talks about that. Life, death – we’re in between that, and my work is always going to reflect this.“ Her work is inspired by her Afro-Caribbean heritage, Black culture and a dialogue of mysticism. Her exhibition “Rewriting History: Paper Gowns and Photographs,” is a photographic essay that mixes garments worn by female European nobility between the 15th–16th centuries with the bodies, histories and stories of black women, celebrating the beauty and pride of her people.

“In the series, my subjects seemingly look silent. They’re not using their mouths to say anything. But their faces are saying something,” Jean-Louis explained about her exhibit, currently on view at the DuSable Museum in Chicago. “‘Rewriting History’ is always going to present the woman as this regal being. I will never victimize my subject. She is always going to be regal. And she is always going to have pride.” She attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh where she majored in illustration, but realized that her passion for the arts encompassed several fields.

It would be years until Fabiola discovered her love and talent for photography. Her use of the photographic medium allows her to seamlessly blend magic with the mundane in order to bring unseen worlds out of hiding. With a style that is haunting, moody, dreamy, magical, and mysterious, along with her talent for visual story-telling, Jean-Louis stands out as an artist to be watched.

Her most recent series, Rewriting History, is a haunting photographic essay, in which Jean-Louis has created paper sculptures styled to mimic garments worn by female European nobility between the 15th - 19th centuries. The series speaks to the shocking treatment of Blacks throughout history and the trauma inflicted on their bodies as juxtaposed with the abstract idea of Black freedom. Rewriting History seeks to reconnect viewers to the past so that parallels with current events are amplified.

CONTACT

Brooklyn, NY

(786) 308-8210

fabiolajl@fabiolajeanlouis.com

Residencies
2017           Museum of Art and Design, NY

EXHIBITIONS
2018          Bordering the Imaginary: Art from the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and their Diasporas - BRIC Gallery, NY

2017          DuSable Museum of African American History, IL

2017          Alan Avery Art Company, GA

2017         Rush Philanthropic- High John the Conqueror Ain't Got Nothing On Me:

American Hoodoo & Southern Black-American Centric Spiritual Ways, Rush Arts Gallery, PA

2017         Here + Now Abandoned Margins: Policing the Black Female Body, NY

2016        The 9th Coven: Witches Ball, Andrew Freedman Home, NY

2016         Africa Forecast: Fashioning Contemporary Life, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, GA

2016        The 2016 Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles Southeastern Designer Show House, GA

2016        Boundless Group Exhibition, Brooklyn Historical Society, NY

2016        Metamorphosis Group Exhibition, Arts East NY Gallery, NY

2016        Rewriting History: paper dresses & photographs, Solo Exhibition, Harlem School of the Arts, NY

2015        Women as Witness Group Exhibition, TI Art Studios, NY

2014        Sixth Annual Juried Student Group Exhibition, Nova Southeastern University, FL

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