Fabiola Nabil Naguib

In being a part of the Indigenous diaspora (Copt*), with acknowledgement and gratitude, Fabiola lives and creates on the traditional, ancestral, unceded, unsurrendered territories of the Hul’qumi’num and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples.

Fabiola is an independent, interdisciplinary artist, poet, essayist and activist. Their/her creative practice is informed by a connective ecology of living and being in the world—engaging the personal, socio-political, ecological, philosophical, and the sacred as indivisible. The embodied interrelationship between connectivity, consciousness, self-determination and justice are vital to Fabiola’s vision and practice.

Decolonizing is central to Fabiola’s worldview, enlivening creativity as an emancipating force and practice. Within this purview, Fabiola acknowledges and articulates the urgency to affirm grassroots creativity and its impact on and contributions to nourishing connections between diverse calls and efforts toward justice, interdependence, common good and solidarity. Fabiola not only activates their/her creative practice in the service of social and ecological justice and just peace, but endeavours to contribute to visibilizing the necessity to evoke the sacred—living, being and staying connected to the interrelationship of all life.

Fabiola’s creative practice is rooted in autonomy, authenticity and accountability, challenging distortions of creativity as mere commodity or appendage of the artworld-academic post/industrial complex.* They/she collaborates on ways of living and being that integrate creativity with values of self-determination, freedom, depthful loving-kindness and consideration,* shared dignity and mutual flourishing—in the service of more beautiful, just and loving communities.

Fabiola has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally, and has been published in several anthologies and journals. They/she is the author of Uninhabiting the Violence of Silencing: activations of creativity, ethics and resistance (Creativity Commons Collective & Press 2007). Fabiola’s new collection of poetry, Site of the Uncolonizable: Meditations on Conscience, Freedom & the Sacred, is forthcoming 2024. Their/her third book, Living Out Loud: Ecologies of Connection, Decolonizing & Telling It, is forthcoming 2025. Working on multiple projects, Fabiola is also currently completing a major series of abstract paintings entitled Lucid (with accompanying text panels) as well as continuing to work on other projects such as their/her ongoing photographic collage series, Archives Re/Imagined.

*Copt - Fabiola has both Copt and German heritage. Copts are one of the Indigenous peoples of North Africa, more specifically Egypt. Copts are also often referred to as Coptic, Coptic Egyptians or Christian Egyptians. This is due to the colonial and contextual confluence of Indigenous and religious identity as well as strategic dominant narratives and practices that attempt to obscure and/or erase Indigenous histories, bonds and belongings.

 * The term and concept of the artworld-academic post/industrial complex comes from the work of Rajdeep S. Gill. See Transforming Curatorial
Practice : Envisioning and Nurturing Ethical-Creative-Archival Ecologies of Connectedness

 *For more on the implications and impacts of depthful loving-kindness and consideration see Essays.

Fabiola Nabil Naguib pronounced [Fubyola Nabeel Nageeb]