Fabio Lo Re was born in Messina in 1973. In 1996 he graduated in Editorial Illustration from the European Institute of Design in Rome, where he also earned a diploma in Photography. After working for several years as a photographer, since 2000 he has devoted himself exclusively to the promotion of contemporary art and to his own artistic research. The artist has taken part in various group exhibitions and has held several solo shows.
He currently lives and works between Rome and Messina.

Fabio Lo Re’s photos are not the result of a beam of light passing through the transparency of the atmosphere. Instead, they are the outcome of a slow and meticulous technique which, through carefully measured openings of light administered with precise functionality, attempts to offer the viewer the possibility of another, more difficult clarity. Every portion, even very small, even just revealed, of an object that he presents to the viewer through his works acquires a specific characteristic: it becomes the point where the visual condensation—and thus the realization—of the balance between a pair that seems essential to interpreting the world takes place, yet within which a great deal of opacity gathers: that between irony and melancholy. It is precisely that opacity that his work investigates, because it is within that apparent filter that the visibility of that balance resides. By illuminating only one of the many points in the objects he selects that might call for light, Lo Re invites the gaze to activate personal memory, which—when recognizing the exact dimension of an object, a memory, or an emotion—never relies solely on irony or solely on melancholy. And if, for Jean Starobinski, the indispensable simultaneous presence of these two human qualities even gives rise to philosophy, for Fabio Lo Re it “simply” outlines the physical and temporal line that prevents the evanescence of the human condition, even when the eyes observe what does not seem so to immediate perception. (Michela Becchis)