Fafa represents an innovative approach to street art that combines traditional painting techniques with collage elements and mixed-media applications, creating layered works that explore themes of cultural identity, memory, and personal narrative within urban contexts. This artist’s distinctive style incorporates found materials, vintage imagery, and personal photographs into complex compositions that function as both individual artistic statements and contributions to broader cultural conversations about identity and belonging. Fafa’s work often addresses themes of migration, cultural fusion, and the experience of navigating multiple cultural identities in contemporary urban environments. The layered approach to composition mirrors the complexity of multicultural experience, with elements from different time periods and cultural contexts coexisting within unified artistic statements. Through careful integration of diverse materials and imagery, Fafa creates works that invite extended contemplation and multiple readings. This approach demonstrates how street art can serve as vehicle for personal storytelling while addressing universal themes of cultural navigation and identity formation in increasingly globalized urban environments.
Graffiti meets Fine Art: Ciscoksl & Fafa in Berlin
When I arrived back in Berlin two days ago, it unfortunately was to late to visit the exhibition opening by Ciscoksl and Fafa at ATM Gallery. For that reason, I took some time to look the graffiti meets fine art show yesterday. “Ciscoksl and Fafa are two Urban Artists who are connected in many ways, though their artistic approach and expression are very different. Both come from the Iberian Peninsula, both startet to paint in the streets in 1997 and both managed to draw their graffiti experience on canvas in a way that has the appeal of contemporay fine art.” (press release) ...