Love is a word

Title: Love Is a Word

Artist: Fair Fab
Medium: Digital Collage & Mixed Media
Year: 2024

Artistic Description

In Love Is a Word, Fair Fab dissects the semantics of intimacy. Layers of painted texture, raw photographic nudity, and typographic overload swirl into a chaotic declaration of emotion. Words like romance, heart, wedding, and valentine cascade through the composition—simultaneously shaping and eroding the figures behind them.

A couple merges into one another, blurred and bound by the very language that attempts to define them. The result is a meditation on how language both creates and confines love, reducing the depth of human connection to clichés, hashtags, and commercialized tropes.

Yet within the saturation, there is vulnerability. Behind the printed labels, we glimpse real tenderness—a suggestion that even commodified love can still feel deeply personal when stripped down to the body, the skin, the stare.

Curator’s Note

Fair Fab’s Love Is a Word is not a celebration—it is a confrontation. The artist compels us to ask: when we say "love," do we mean it? Do the words that flood our screens and Hallmark cards truly reflect the complexities of affection, desire, and partnership?

The typography functions as both veil and mirror. It masks the subjects but reflects our culture back at us—obsessed with labeling emotion. This piece reminds us that real connection exists in the spaces between words, in the glances, gestures, and silences that language often fails to hold.

As a curator, I see this work as a contemporary love letter torn open, revealing the tension between sincerity and spectacle in our digital age.