About the artist

Flying fish, living robots... dead ones, feminine creatures, neither women nor girls, cats from the past. These mysterious beings and others populate Fragola de la Vega's works. Born on an island, Sicily, Francesca carries within her all the power of the sea, a stormy sea that brings to the surface fragments of the past, a sea where improbable boats defy the waves, lose and find their way again. A black and white torn by a vivid red where dream and reality, past and present, harshness and joie de vivre, childhood and adulthood, dance in a mysterious and fascinating harmony. A feeling of melancholy but at the same time of rebirth pervades the observer who lets themselves be carried away by the waves. Dreamlike reality and urban reality blend in a perfect balance in which the creatures, extrapolated from their natural context, are catapulted into environments foreign to them and to which they are forced to adapt.

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