Fenda

Constructed from the piping finish used in sewing, the works in the Fenda series operate in a liminal territory between painting, object, and textile surface, where the image emerges less through the addition of material than through incision—the slit as an inaugural gesture. It is a tense interval between surface and depth that functions ambiguously as both formal and conceptual unit—neither exactly void nor line. The plane ceases to be continuous and instead becomes traversed by markings that appear in an almost industrial gesture. The slits act as units of measurement, as if the universe contained within the work were being counted, rhythmized, or mapped.

The piping, traditionally associated with reinforcing and containing the edge, here shifts its function: it does not enclose but opens. Each cut-and-stitch is a minimal event that interrupts the chromatic field and transforms it into an active space. Technique ceases to be a peripheral resource and becomes the very field of investigation: a way of thinking form through interruption, of constructing presence through the cut, and of making the surface a site of continuous tension between order and sensibility.

Gabriel Babolim