BIO – Artistic Approach

Francesca Fiaschi (fifi) is a visual artist with a background in architecture. Her practice explores the relationship between color, material, and space, focusing on a direct, visual, and tactile experience. She treats color as a language in its own right—both structural and emotional—expressed across mixed media supports such as fabric, paper, plaster, thread, and pigments. Her work draws on the observation of both natural and urban environments, translating those experiences into abstract compositions that engage tactile, optical, and emotional perception.

“The goal is to create forms that remain legible even for those who perceive color in non-conventional ways.”

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Trained in Italy and based in Montréal since 2014, Fiaschi has absorbed influences from various cultural contexts—Florence, Perugia, Venice, Morocco, China, Korea, Canada—which have shaped her sensitivity to landscape textures, urban rhythms, and the quality of light in different places. Her work reflects these atmospheres through patterns, forms, and chromatic contrasts, with the colorist gesture at its core.

It was in Montréal that the chromatic dimension became a conscious part of her practice. Identified for the first time as a “colorist”, she began to approach color not only as intuitive material, but as an independent field of study and experimentation. This recognition marked a methodological turning point in her artistic journey.

She works with traditional techniques (watercolor, ink, oil, acrylic) and artisanal methods (textile, screen printing), sometimes combined with digital tools. Her practice also incorporates natural pigments derived from spices—turmeric, coffee, saffron—which add an additional sensory layer to the use of color.

In recent years, her research has focused on altered color perception, particularly in individuals with color blindness. She creates works that question contrast legibility and the subjectivity of visual experience.