ENJOIA’T, Contemporary Jewelry Awards is an important meeting of professional and student jewelers from all over the world, which occurs during Barcelona Jewelry Week. I have travelled there as a semifinalist and showed three works at Disseny HUB Barcelona from 27.09 to 5.10.2017.
Metanoia V
brooch 2015
stabilized wood, silver, steel
modelled & 3D scanned, CNC milled
11.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm
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Metanoia XIV
brooch 2015
stabilized wood, silver, steel
modelled & 3D scanned, CNC milled
12 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm
photo author
Ultra
necklace 2017
laquered stabilized wood, silver, steel, silicon
modelled & 3D scanned, CNC milled
13 x 8 x 2.5 cm
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DEFEND BEFORE THE JURY AND AWARDS CEREMONY:
On Friday, October 6th, each participant met the jury to defend their pieces. I prepared a text in a verse form that was written considering a verbal speech. Therefore pause marks were included.
PS the version is not edited so there could be some mistakes:
chapter 1: | | NAME
you must strip yourself | | of every sentiment | |
of every former physical | | and desirable realia | |
unless you do this, | | you are but halfhearted in your enterprise | |
change of mindset | |
this is Metanoia
chapter 2: | | MATERIAL
androgynous jewellery is born hybrid | |
right after the crash of gender | |
see | | how it fuses opposites: | |
vacuuming liquids | | into a hard wood | |
stabilizing wood | |
when you touch its surface long enough, | |
you start to feel its wholeness | |
– sum of opposites | | of natural and synthetic | |
fused into a smooth | | and homogenous matter | |
coincidentia oppositorum | |
gender is one
chapter 3: | | PROCESS
modelled & 3D scanned clay | |
changed into millions of pixels | |
so you has no senses left | |
it is Seraphita | |
who is like an angel | | on the verge of a final transformation | |
which will rid him of his body | |
and carry to heaven | |
transformation of the brutal reality | |
that was felt, smelled and touched | |
into other | | intangible, immaterial existence
no combinatory method | |
nor about woman | | nor about man | |
but about one | | about sculpture | |
out of a whole block of wood | |
cut by machines | |
becomes physically perfect | |
only because of the presence | | of an individual
I also visited some exhibitions and lectures during the four days:
stills from Gésine Hackenberg’s talk
Eva Burton at “It’s piñata time” — duo exhibition of
Eva Burton & Tabea Reulecke at Amaranto Joies Gallery
Eva Burton
Nicolas Estrada at The Barcelona Jewelry Workshop
Nicolas Estrada
Francesca Antonello at JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery Fair
Aurélie Guillaume at Klimt02 Gallery
headpiece by Inai Tsubasa at JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery Fair
Elena Moreno — the winner of ENJOIA’t
LINKS:
https://klimt02.net/events/open-calls/open-call-enjoia-t-awards-2017-fad
http://a-fad.blogspot.com.ee/2017/08/enjoiat-2017-finalistes.html
http://bijoucontemporain.unblog.fr/2017/09/28/joya-2017-barcelona-sp-enjoiat-27-sept-5-oct6-oct-2017/