Fábio Colaço's work is conceptual in nature and proposes a critical reflection on the capitalist system and the power and symbolic value of money, appropriating materials, forms and images from contemporary popular and visual culture.

Visual literacy has expanded immeasurably in recent years, both in the way images are presented to us and the speed with which they circulate. In the current digital age, the sheer amount of visual stimuli has reached unprecedented levels, spreading and quickly becoming part of the collective memory. - Memes
, in particular, are units of digital culture that capture ideas, behaviours or styles based on humour and irony, spreading virally on social networks and reflecting cultural phenomena and current events.

- Untitled (sad Musk)
is a small painting that reproduces a frame from a filmed interview (60 Minutes Australia) in which one of the richest men in the world gets emotional. The image of Elon Musk crying went viral and circulated around the world as a - meme
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of the seemingly antagonistic exploration between a symbol of power and the expression of sensitivity/fragility. Now transposed mimetically into an oil painting, the artist has added another layer of antagonism and subversion to this portrait. As a realistic portrait with a classical appearance, it features a character from the present day who corresponds to a digital fragment of the temporal narrative of our times: the saddened face of the disillusionment of capitalism.