WHAT REMAINS
On the bare ground, the small torn-off arm with the upturned hand of a little doll that belonged to who knows who: IT IS ALL THAT REMAINS.
And it is not the testimony of an interrupted game, but a symbol: it is a symbol for those children who were not allowed to grow up because they were born ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time’, it is a symbol for all those existences broken by the violence of war, for all those human lives brutally cut short in the insane and unworthy race to prevail one over the other in the name of deceptive democracies, in reality exclusively for greed and the safeguard of economic interests with the use of increasingly sophisticated and deadly weapons to the point of no return.
Lidia Fiabane is born in Belluno, Italy. First Woman at the Istituto Tecnico Industriale, Belluno – architectural
drawing, design, diploma in architecture. Studies at the University of Milan’s Istituto Universitario
Lingue Moderne – history of art and literature. Doctorate.
Stays in Paris and Mexico. She lives in Vienna as a freelance artist. Working in the fields of painting (mainly in acrylics on layered paper), collage, objects and
installations. The main theme of her artistic research is the stereotype and the cliché. Her projects often have a multimedia character, involving people outside the art world. Exhibitions and exhibition participation in Austria, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Croatia, the US, Israel, and South Korea.
Works purchased by: Austrian Federal Ministry (Art Section), City of Vienna, Bank Austria Creditanstalt, private collections in Austria and abroad.
Texts on L. Fiabane have been written by: Peter Gorsen Peter Zawrel, Wolfgang Hilger, Martin
Fischer, Maria ChristineHolter, Giovanni Leghissa, Arnaldo Dante Marianacci, Michaela Seif,
Burghart Schmidt.
