09 january 2026, Emily Van Driessen
Fruiting Bodies and Other Things We Have in Common in Working Title Gallery
With Fruiting Bodies and Other Things We Have in Common, Working Title Gallery in Amsterdam presents an exhibition that unfolds through three carefully attuned practices: the work of visual artists Fabiola Burgos Labra, Jacopo Dal Bello and Matthias Odin.
Across the exhibition, several shared concerns come to the fore. The artists’ material choices are relationally charged and carry their socio-ecological contexts with them. Slowness is deliberately deployed as a critique of an accelerated capitalist logic driven by production and output. Within the porous space between subject and context, the artists move alongside their work rather than positioning themselves above it. What emerges, both within the individual practices and within the exhibition space itself, is a shared form of authorship that proves particularly compelling.
Fabiola Burgos Labra, Chirríu, Chirríu, 2025 & How Do Tomatoes Grow (yellow), Working Title
Fabiola Burgos Labra (1984, Chile) lives and works in Brussels. She is active as a visual artist and, since September 2025, has also been working as a researcher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. A defining element of her practice is the series Mummies – mami, in which fruit and vegetables are carefully wrapped in hand-crocheted cotton and wool. The objects acquire a sculptural, protective, woolly skin, while life, and its decomposition, continues unabated from within. Gradually, the fruit stains the textile; in other cases, decay quite literally seeps outward.
For Burgos Labra, this form of mummification constitutes a caring gesture towards life itself. The cotton we use in countless contexts to cover and protect becomes a witness to the decomposition of a living body. Her practice is rooted in a deep appreciation of Indigenous knowledge of materials and techniques from South America. By foregrounding simple, domestic actions such as weaving and knotting, she privileges the ephemeral and the tactile over the stable and the purely visual, reflecting on the boundaries between nature and culture as constructed by modernity.
Fabiola Burgos Labra, Golden Balls, 2025, Working Title
Jacopo Dal Bello (1989, Italy) lives and works in Berlin. His practice often begins with found elements that, through experimentation, are transformed into new images. Paper, text, pigment and discarded personal objects appear in precise arrangements that generate fresh poetic evocations. Arte Povera is a clear point of reference, as is Berlin’s culture of flea markets and street finds, shaped by the local habit of leaving unwanted objects in public space.
In his work, the everyday is brought into dialogue with references to Baroque old masters, placing found materials on the same level as the established values of art history. This creates an intriguing narrative tension that opens up possibilities to reconsider how meaning is assigned and how the world is ordered into rigid categories.
Jacopo Dal Bello, This Moment, 2025 & The Best of All Possible Worlds., 2025, Working Title
Matthias Odin (1995, France) lives and works in Paris. His work emerges from stray movements and encounters in the city, drawing on experiences and objects from everyday life as material resources. Odin collects objects, gifts from friends, as well as fragments of experiences, integrating them into his work as remnants of things encountered along the way. His visual language carries multiple traces, both personal and accidental, which make the works resemble readymades while remaining charged with affect. Through the creation of his own emotional ecosystems, he shows how objects can embody the presence of another, and how memories can take on material form.
Matthias Odin, Je te vois je revis (reborn), 2024 & Pressure, 2025, Working Title
The exhibition can be visited until Sunday 18 November at Working Title Gallery in Amsterdam.
Biographies
Fabiola Burgos Labra (1984, Chile) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She studied at the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso and obtained an MFA from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. In 2022–2023, she was a laureate of HISK, the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Belgium. Her work has been shown, among others, at Galeria Jaqueline Martins in Brussels, Sorry Not Sorry Festival in Ghent, the Sint-Denijs-City Biennial, Studio Marie Cloquet and the Matthys-Colle Collection in Ghent, as well as at HISK and Société d’Électricité in Brussels. In Chile, she has exhibited at Galería Gabriela Mistral, Matucana 100, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Universidad de Chile, and the Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Cerrillos. Internationally, she has participated in exhibitions in New York, Mexico City, Panama City, Managua, Bucharest and Kyoto.
Jacopo Dal Bello (1989, Italy) lives and works in Berlin. Solo exhibitions include Tratteggi Anacronistici (Spazio Scuderia, San Zenone, 2021), Variations on Worldmaking (Aleph Contemporary, 2020) and Elegy of the Flesh (5th Base Gallery, London, 2016). Duo and group exhibitions have taken place at venues such as Studio Peter Buechler (Berlin), C4RD (London), Salve Berlin (Berlin), Flutgraben e.V. (Berlin), TM Lighting Gallery (London) and Simmons & Simmons (London).
Matthias Odin (1995, France) graduated from the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Cergy in 2023. He took part in Jeune création internationale at the Institut d’art contemporain in Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes and participated in the 17th Lyon Biennale with the installation Vortex aEra Player (2024). Recent projects include solo presentations such as Entre le cœur et les murs at FRAC Île-de-France / Le Plateau, and group exhibitions including Stickers !!! at Les Bains-Douches, Alençon, and A Hundred Ways to Disappear in Paris.
