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Fabiola Larios (b. 1986) is a Mexican interdisciplinary artist based in Miami, currently in residence at Bakehouse Art Complex. Her work explores the aesthetics and politics of surveillance, self-representation, and obsolescence in the digital age. Through installations that fuse e-waste, glitter, vintage electronics, and bedazzled surveillance cameras, Larios critiques how identity is shaped by algorithmic systems and economies of visibility.

We met Fabiola Larios in her studio during the Baker's Brunch event at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami during Miami Art Week. In this video Fabiola Larios talks about her work, specifically about the piece Panoptipink (2025), an art installation made of surveillance cameras, pink Disney TVs, and a chair.

Fabiola Larios. Studio Visit. Bakehouse Art Complex Baker's Brunch: Open Studio + Cafecito. Miami (USA), December 4, 2025.
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00:00Yeah, or like art, and then the other one has to be like, I don't know what you're reading.
00:05At the same time?
00:06At the same time.
00:07At the same time.
00:09It's just that I get tired, like, because I read, like, every night, like novels, like,
00:15and then I read, like, sociology, because I need to rest, and then, like, all of these
00:20scrolls, like, you know, like, no scrolling.
00:23So whenever I see that, I feel like half-hour like scrolling, I'm just like, okay, no, I
00:27need, I need to put it out, and I need to read.
00:29So this piece is the inverse theory of the panopticon.
00:35The panopticon is this tower in a prison where, you know, like, the prisoners don't know if
00:41they're being observed or not, because they know there might be somebody, but they're not
00:47sure.
00:47So this piece is the opposite.
00:49So people sit here willingly.
00:52This is called panopticon.
00:53So people sit here willingly to see themselves and have, like, this eternal loop of surveillance
00:59cameras, where they see themselves, and then they are just seen in multiple angles, like,
01:04like, around, surrounded by surveillance cameras, basically.
01:09And this is a live feed, also.
01:11So, I was also, I would think, thank you very much, like, because, oh my gosh, I'm already
01:15running on camera.
01:16Yeah?
01:17Yeah?
01:18Yeah?
01:19Okay.
01:20Um, thank you for coming.
01:22Thanks.
01:23So, I, I don't know.
01:24I'm an interdisciplinary artist.
01:25I have a specialty in painting and photography, but I started working with detail art because
01:31it was easier because I didn't have a studio back then.
01:32So, I, like, the compositions that I was making for my paintings, they just started, like,
01:37um, transforming into art while I was doing it in Photoshop.
01:38So, I started, like, seeing great pictures of my paintings.
01:39Um, thank you for coming.
01:40Thanks.
01:41So, um, so, I, I don't know.
01:45I'm an interdisciplinary artist.
01:47I have a specialty in painting and photography, but I started, uh, working with detail art because
01:53it was, uh, easier because I didn't have a studio back then.
01:57So, I, like, the compositions that I was making for my paintings, they just started, like,
02:01um, transforming into art while I was doing it in Photoshop.
02:05So, I started, like, seeing groups on Facebook and a lot of tutorials about how to do digital art.
02:10And so, I wanted to paint those images and then I realized that I could make just digital art and
02:15that could be, like, my practice.
02:17But I, I do have, like, the, a traditional, um, education in art, in the arts.
02:23Uh, so, I just started, like, working with a lot of different mediums.
02:27I worked a lot with obsolescence programming with a lot of old devices and e-waste, uh,
02:33because I, my dad had a computer store.
02:36So, I was always, like, being, um, I was always, you know, like, exposed to, like,
02:44technology, old and new, mostly new.
02:47And so, I was very worried about, oh, but this still works, Dad.
02:50Like, why, why do we have to, like, change it or something?
02:53So, I don't know, it was just the way that I, I wanted to work lately in my life with all this old technology.
03:02I understand, I understand.
03:04Luckily, I mean, I know what it is.
03:06Yeah.
03:07All of this, I was very deep.
03:10A little bit.
03:12Yeah.
03:13So, I wish that, like, I, for at least, uh, you know, yeah.
03:20Oh, yeah, I should stuff like it.
03:21I wish it's online.
03:22Uh, I have piñatas because I, I make this, um, like...
03:28How are we doing this?
03:29I feel like it.
03:30Okay, great.
03:31How have we been doing this?
03:32Hey, I got this!
03:33Good Lord.
03:34Healthy or the Hell?
03:35Right?
03:37Loving the Right.
03:38Right.
03:39Mm2 start.
03:40Thanks Angle.
03:41Bye, my friends.
03:42Bye, my friends!
03:55Bye, my friends!

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