Carrying Her With me - 2025

Carrying Her With Me explores the profound impact of the mother-daughter relationship on identity. In this series, Fabiola dives into the complexities of these relationships across different households and communities, recognizing that this unique bond carries meaningful lessons, stories, and values. Her close relationship with her own mother has deeply shaped her identity, imparting countless life lessons.

Through this series, Fabiola seeks to understand how these complex relationships manifest in different families and how cultural backgrounds, family dynamics, and varying forms of mother-daughter connections—both blood-related and blended families—shape these bonds. Simultaneously, she explores her own identity as a young woman and daughter through self-portraiture. By engaging in conversations about the impact of mothers on their daughters, she reflects on the influence her own mother has had on her life in a vulnerable and explorative way.

As she engages in self-reflection and navigates these external and internal dialogues, Fabiola has come to realize that her relationship with her mother directly informs her interactions with others. Like many daughters, she strives for independence, working to separate her evolving beliefs from those of her mother. Yet she recognizes how much of her mother, both consciously and unconsciously, is reflected in her—the way she carries herself, relates to others, and even in her smiles.

Fabiola believes that whether intentional or not, daughters inherently carry aspects of their mothers. This realization fosters deeper self-awareness, allowing individuals to examine their identity, values, and life choices. She also acknowledges how generational trauma can unconsciously shape daughters’ lives. At the same time, daughters inherit profound and beautiful qualities from their mothers: their love, their courage, their resilience.

Let Boys Be - 2018

Let Boys Be, challenges the concept of toxic masculinity; becoming a visual and sensory exhibition that is exciting, surprising, and introspective. Vibrant colors, fleeting scenes, and creative expressions portray the identities of men who flourish with femininity. Collectively, they represent what it looks like to interrupt judgment, traditional roles, and misconceptions about gender, behavior, and attributes. Being different is a way of life, and the lines are blurred in this exhibition between what they are supposed to represent and who they choose to be. Fabiola’s portraits capture those intimate moments with her subjects, inviting you to smile with them, to feel with them, and to praise them for who they are - their authentic selves.