Fanny Faria is a freelance illustrator and art director. Trained at the École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc in Tournai, she specialised in art direction at the Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués (LISAA). In 2024, she became a freelance illustrator and won the Prix Jeunes Talents des Agents Associés in the illustration category. Her singular universe is made up of vibrant colours and an assumed nostalgia. She draws her inspiration from the pop culture of the 90s to work with publishing and press houses such as Éditions du Chêne and Marabout.
Silencio is an invitation to explore the meanders of the unconscious, a journey where gentleness and strangeness intertwine. Each image reveals fragments of a forgotten story, a mosaic of memories and sensations that create a picture both mysterious and familiar.
The scenes evoke timeless places: the soft light of a summer's night, an uncertain twilight, a car frozen on the edge of a cliff, a bed drifting in the middle of the ocean... These details whisper half-erased stories. Yet behind this apparent tranquillity, an elusive tension persists, like a secret that's impossible to penetrate.
The illustrations plunge us into these troubled waters, on the border between dream and reality. The memory becomes an intimate puzzle to be pieced together. Perspectives become distorted, everyday objects take on symbolic value, and empty spaces are filled with an almost imperceptible presence.
Like a dream, Silencio offers no obvious answers, but invites us to feel rather than understand, to be carried away somewhere where each element opens up to an elsewhere. It's an inner exploration, a wandering through suspended moments where past, present and imagination merge.
In this meditative, enigmatic universe, silence becomes a language, and strangeness reveals a fragile, poignant beauty. Silencio is a fragile balance between the ephemeral and the timeless, between what we think we know and what always eludes us.