I make fragile work: hangings of unravelled silk prints, networks of fine threads on paper, drawings on flimsy scraps of plastic. Fragmentation is at the core of my process. I make materials porous, undo the order of museum collections, reverse digital deletion.
I work slowly, pulling threads one by one from a piece of cloth or carefully sifting a vast digital archive. I’m searching for relationships: between disparate photographs, between a translucent material and its surroundings, between the delicate and the chaotic, between system and chance.
fabienne.hess (at) gmx.ch
Instagram: fabienne_hess
b. Switzerland, based in London

I Need, Trust Me, Help Me, La Balsa Arte, Bogotá, Colombia

Entre Nos, La Balsa Arte, Medellín, Colombia
Between Poles and Tides, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Latent Surfaces, Like A Little Disaster, Polignano a Mare
TenderPixels.CorruptedFiles, Birch Contemporary, Toronto
Grand Magasin Deux, French Riviera, London
DAK’ART, Dakar Biennale for Contemporary Art, Dakar
Riff/t, Baltic Center of Contemporary Art, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Open Day, Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia
Excerpts from the Bastard Series, XVIIX.com, online
Jungkunst, Halle 52, Winterthur, Switzerland
We are Here, SPACE, London
Off Sight, British Film Institute, London
RCA Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London
Paradise, Salone Internzionale del Mobile, Milan

LUX looking, mediated (touring programme); OUTPOST, Norwich and Objectif Vidéo, Nice, France
Artist Talk, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Blackbox Festival, Seattle
Open Data Ecologies, Delfina Foundation, London
RIFF/T Closing, Baltic Center of Contemporary Art, Newcastle
Sturtevant Study Day, Serpentine Galleries, London

Common Editions, artist book Zebras, Blanks and Blobs
Limn Magazine, The Total Archive, portfolio feature, issue 6
The Independent, Young Female Artists are leading the Pack, review Hits and Misses
A–N (The Artists Information company), review Hits and Misses
Red Hook Journal, Everything is Moving, review Bastard Series
BOMB Magazine, Trust me, portfolio feature
The Modern Painter, review Replica Sentiments, September issue
AQNB, review Replica Sentiments
Dazed Digital, review Replica Sentiments
Wax Magazine, Things, Not Water, portfolio feature, issue 5
Wallpaper, The Graduate Directory, portfolio feature, January issue
Gestalten, Culture Identities, portfolio feature
Royal College of Art, Useless; New Writing in Art and Design, portfolio feature

Collective Vomit, commissioned Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

I teach at London College of Fashion and London College of Communication.

Image archives (Bastards): Spectrum IV; Twin; International Klein Blue; Olympia; Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III; Impression, Sunrise; Black Square.
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