Fabas
As the artist duo Fabas, Alejandra López & Lena Longefay (KABK Master Artistic Research alumni) explore food making and sharing as an artistic practice. Together they make edible installations that rejoice in moments of coming together, and follow a desire to foster intimacy, joy and curiosity about the food we eat, the way it reaches us and the effect it has on our minds and bodies.
Investigating the intertwined cultural, socio- political and ecological aspects of food by creating platforms for discussion and conversation, instigating playfulness and curiosity in food and its histories. Fabas are guided by slow cooking and fermentation techniques, both practically and metaphorically, and are deeply interested in the complex multispecies collaboration involved in food making.
Having previously translated mystic superstar Hildegard von Bingen´s notions on healing into a series of interactive installations, they are currently expanding our research into eco feminist histories and storytellings of food and daily life.They would like to share their process based research and how their individual and collaborative practices merge and inform each other.
Recently they have worked together with 1646, The Grey Space in The Middle, Nest, KABK, Kunstintituut Melly, Billytown, ArtSCool, Extrapool, and Blanco. Their collaboration has also included other artists and art collectives such as Annemarie Wadlow, Trang Ha, Nice Flaps and Eathouse.
Alejandra López
Alejandra López is an artist born in Elche, Spain, and based in The Hague. Her practice seeks to question how visual, and material languages have an effect on the way we feel. Thinking through drawing in order to re-frame and digest found imagery, stories, and personal encounters. Concerned with ideas of coexistence with non humanness, and nonverbal communication, with ways of accessing the world we live in without conquering or controlling it. Focusing on sensation and feeling, exploring immediate surroundings and materialities. Alejandra works both collaboratively and autonomously and her work manifests as collective moments, installation, drawing, sculpture, and moving image.
Lena Longefay
Always inspired by R. Filiou’s quote “Art is what makes life more interesting than art”, Lena Longefay (b. 1996, FR) develops a research-based practice influenced by the concepts of tradition, togetherness and fermentation. She creates installations, sometimes animated by performances. Currently, she is cultivating knowledge in winemaking and sommellerie skills. For her it is a personal heritage that she is developing into body of work influenced by these experiences. She is based in The Hague, NL and Beaujolais, FR.
