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contemporary jewels
Tincal Lab Challenge 2025, Porto
Jewels are often connected to collective rituals and long-time traditions. Think about weddings, coronation or awards ceremonies, graduations and anniversaries.
In the context of celebration, a jewel can be universally recognized as a symbol of a commitment or an achievement. On a more personal level, it can celebrate memories, emotions and feelings. As a sign of intimacy, it can hide secrets whose meaning is only noticed by the wearer and someone who has the key. Often left as a heirloom or gifted on special dates, a jewel can bear layers of meanings that connect us to people we love or special events in our lives.
A metaphor, a memory vessel, a souvenir, a reflexion of a personal expression, a display of social status, a symbol of love that stands the test of time. Jewelry is definitely a way to celebrate life in all its variety of forms and expressions.
Passed from hand to hand through time
I do not believe in the celebration as the worship of ashes but as the preservation of a fire. Fire - like life - is the present and what is contemporary, ashes are not.
A celebration, even if dedicated to an event, a memory or a feeling of a past time, has meaning only if it belongs to and is expressed in a present time.
These three jewels try to express this point of view through the only use of their expressive language: old jewels, passed from hand to hand over time, now seeking new hands to celebrate them in a new time.
