Urban pulse

Title: Urban Pulse

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

Artistic Description

In Urban Pulse, Fair Fab blends the soul of the city with the anatomy of memory. A phantom-like face emerges from a kaleidoscopic overlay of city streets, handwritten letters, and gestural brushstrokes. Skyscrapers blur into veins, crosswalks into neural networks. Yellow cabs, faceless pedestrians, and graffiti textures flicker like urban dreams on a moving train.

The piece pulses with the energy of New York, Paris, or perhaps an invented metropolis—where identity, architecture, and emotion intertwine. Layered textures of handwritten French text whisper stories across time and space, merging the personal with the collective. It’s not a cityscape—it’s a psyche-scape.

Curator’s Note

Urban Pulse captures what we often forget about cities: that they are living organisms, shaped by touch, memory, and chaos. Fair Fab invites us into an inner city not built of brick, but of texture, skin, language, and noise. The ghostly face rising from the concrete jungle isn’t a specter—it’s a witness, reminding us that every city holds secrets beneath its rhythm.

This work stands as a tribute to human complexity, camouflaged in the everyday. As a curator, I see in Urban Pulse not only a visual experience, but a sonic one—a visual jazz of people, places, and pulse.