III Latinamerican Jewelry Biennial
I'm happy to announce that two of my necklaces have been selected for the III Bienal Latinoamericana de joyería contemporánea within the frame of the "Abran cancha" contest. The proposal was that we search in our work for the elements that infuse it with its South American essence. 114 pieces belonging to 73 artists from Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Chile and Argentina are part of the exhibition.
The two works I presented are titled Uprooted 1 and 3 and were made with hand-modeled stain porcelain beads, cotton cords dyed with natural dyes, and recycled textiles. Each piece has fringes-roots that hang from each necklace-plant. They are looking for a new soil to continue growing.
I feel that, an experience that we all Latin Americans share is that of uprooting:
- that of the original inhabitants of our continent displaced due to the persecutions and massacres perpetrated by the colonizers.
- that of Africans enslaved and forcibly transferred to our lands.
- that of the immigrants who arrived escaping from wars and poverty.
- that of Latin Americans themselves fleeing dictatorships.
- that of the inhabitants of these lands who cross the borders in search of work.
I am a descendant of Italians. From them I inherited the craft of ceramics and sewing. In my pieces there are thread and porcelain, which I seek to harmoniously unite in a construction where each part, despite its differences, contributes something of its own to the whole.
La Bienal is organized by Argentinian jewelers Paula Ísola and Laura Giusti from the Joyeros Argentinos collective.
It opened last Tuesday August 17, with an online ceremony, and is the first to be broadcasted so that it can be accessed from all over Latin America and the world. It is also the first with venues throughout the entire continent: simultaneous activities and exhibitions will not have a single territory as a stage, but several cities that will showcase locally in person and globally in virtuality the work of their artists, making it even more Latin American.
The jewelry contest for this edition is named "Abran Cancha" (open up the playing field).
Cancha is a word of Quechua origin meaning playing field, an aboriginal word, such as canoa (canoe) and maiz (corn), huracán (hurricane) and colibrí (hummingbird), cacao (cocoa) and poncho. The dominant Spanish language was not enough to name everything, and thousands of words from the different American cultures were incorporated into the Spanish language that spreads through the continent and the world. The same happens with Brazilian Portuguese, with words like oi, tapioca or toró. Our original cultures are manifested in our Latin American identity through our language (among many other things), in the same way that our Latin American identity sprouts in our work.
The Exhibition can be visited virtually on the labienal.ar platform where the parallel events scheduled for this edition will also be broadcast.
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