Born in 1990, Matthias spent his childhood and his adolescence in Paris. He studied French Philology at the University of Warsaw. Fabre deals mainly with painting, photography and writing. His work is inspired by asemic writings, Japanese calligraphy and the tag, a form of graffiti signature. Fascinated by linguistics and literature, a painting is for Fabre the place where the lines between the writing and the meaning, the form and the content are blurred. In his artworks, Fabre combines abstract expressionism, minimalism and street art.

“For me, illegible marks are like ciphers, like street tags that only the initiated can decipher. The remnants of writing express a certain nostalgia for what is old, what must be abandoned. A testimony to the analogue era, a foreshadowing of the digital era, where man will no longer use writing. A writing devoid of signifié is that which is forgotten, illegible like indistinct memories that are slowly fading, it is also aphasia, illegibility, lack of communication and understanding. A request left without any response. To show this profusion of interpretations, the writing drifts, emerges and partly falls into the depths of the image. The vibrating effect is achieved by working with oil pastels on a solid background which, in the process of creating the works, is rubbed off and covered up by thin layers of acrylic paint.”