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Fafi

French girl Fafi’s extraordinary style is on the spot right here and right now. Her one of a kind images have brought worldwide recognition and also gave female graffiti a new twist.

FMCS: Fafi, where do you currently live and work?

Fafi: I have lived in Paris for 2 years now. It’s a very stimulating City, I like the energy people spread and riding on my moped is one of the coolest things to get to know the Paris from corner to corner.

FMCS: Do you see yourself more like a painter or a graphic artist?

Fafi: I don’t think I am a great painter and I don’t know how to use
Illustrator (software program). I think I can be called an artist because what takes most of my time besides taking care of my baby and loving my husband is my creations.

FMCS: How come you picked up the can?

Fafi: I picked up brushes in 1994, in the city where I used to live before: Toulouse. The technique of using cans takes a long time to learn, when I start something I usually want to have good results as soon as possible. For that reason I draw a lot, brushes are the easiest way to have the same sensations I had on paper.

FMCS: Sharply describe your art and style please

Fafi: I do Characters: Fafinettes, which are my human-like girls, Hmilos, little depressed beasts, and Birtak, a little 4 legged creature who was once a pirate. They are all living in the Carmine Vault, another world.

FMCS: Are there more and more women out there painting graffiti now?

Fafi: Yes, I think so, especially in South America. They have a different way of seeing things, more poetic and dreamy. Their process is not influenced by traditional graffiti, which leads to more sensibility.

FMCS: What motivates you?

Fafi: The idea of creating a new world with its own behavior and people. Now, I am only at the beginning of it, I wish I could imagine some place where the others want to live.

FMCS: How come you chose the name ‘Fafi’ and ‘Fafinettes’ for your creatures?

Fafi: I just draw them and the name comes right after. But they are not dolls, they all have characters and lives. Hmilo is depressed, they only thing that makes him a little happy is to brush Fafinette’s hair with his brush-like teeth. Birtak was once a pirate, and after being fed up with robbery decided to become a ballerina, mean fafinettes wanted to punish him by cutting off one of his legs, but he still came to a big city opera to become a dancer. Fafi is just a surname Tober gave me.

FMCS: What is your current project about?

Fafi: I am building our house.

FMCS: How about collaborations with other artists or companies?

Fafi: There are many people I like but I know someday we’ll meet.
The world is so small.

Working for companies is cool for money, but I try to challenge myself every time, to find another interest in it. For example, trying to step up to another level of creation, not only using what I already did.

FMCS: How about past exhibitions? Is there any exhibition coming up?

Fafi: It’s very hard and takes a lot of energy, I always put all my heart in it, setting a show up takes at least 3 months. I know I would be into doubt for a certain time, that’s why I only do 2 per year. The last was at Colette’s in Paris, I built a whole Fafinette room, like if she was coming for holidays during the summer.

Coming up: Projects in L.A, San Francisco and Taiwan.

FMCS: How is the art scene in Toulouse coming along?

Fafi: Well, I think there is nothing passionate in Toulouse, but in Paris it’s a little bit more special.

FMCS: What and who is your source of inspiration?

Fafi: At the moment, I get inspired a lot by Moumine le Troll, a book I read when I was young. With the Carmine Vault, I am the only one to create it, and, as I don’t want it to look like anything else, I try not to get inspired by others.

FMCS: What keeps you busy besides work?

A mamma is always busy, I have many friends and I like to party. I don’t think I can call what I do work! It’s just what I like to do. But I guess we have to find a word to express it, maybe I have to invent one!

FMCS: Comments or shout outs?

Fafi: KISSES

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