Serie Amor Doméstico

Domestic love

Vania Ruiz

 Model: Lulita (my grandmother)
Photography: María Valeska Cirano

 broche reversible. Caucho silicona, magnetos

Jewelry allows me to reveal aspects of our Latin American being, connecting them with my family history and nostalgia for a lost domestic space. A vanished female world that this portable scale  brings closer to the user, intimately, like a secret whispered in the ear.

The custom to “dress” home appliances is a habit I saw as a girl at my grandmother’s home, seeking to protect and integrate these strange and novel artifacts into a rural and humble Chile. Small luxuries dressed with printed covers and profusely decorated with ribbons and frills, custom-made by their owner. Domestic love thus materialized in adornment.

What, as a woman, do I want to protect today? No longer home appliances, but those devices that offer me the freedom to leave home. Sure, blameless, fearless.

As a material, rubber maintains the qualities of a cover allowing me to play with the duality of presence and absence. It protects what it masks and suggests it at the same time.

This work was developed with Joya Brava Association, tutored and curated by Jorge Manilla.

Some of the pieces are part of the "Common Stories" exhibition and others are a personal continuation of the process.

“LaContraseña”

Vania R. uiz. 2016Necklace

Silicone rubber, textile trimmings, bronze.

“Virgen”

Vania Ruiz. 2016. Brooch

Silicone rubber, bronze, steel. 

"Protección Materna"

Necklace

Silicone rubber

Second Price at 1st Bienal de Joyería Contemporánea Latinoamericana de Buenos Aires. Argentina

"Protección Materna"

Necklace

Silicone rubber

Second Price at 1st Bienal de Joyería Contemporánea Latinoamericana de Buenos Aires. Argentina

En un continente violentado por la Conquista, donde la figura masculina simbolizó poder y sufrimiento, fue la imagen de la Virgen, madre compasiva, y no la de Dios, padre castigador, aquella que despertó la devoción más ferviente. La Virgen, como las madres protectoras y resilientes que nos unen. 

Common Stories Exhibition at Munich Jewelry Week. Asociación Joya Brava

Common Stories, Joya Brava Association. Curator Jorge Manilla

Exhibition at Munich Jewelry Week

Rita Soto

Vania Ruiz

Since April 2015, the Chilean Association Joya Brava has been working with Jorge Manilla as tutor and curator of our most recent Project “Common Stories”, exhibition that brings together the works of 20 Chilean jewelers.

This workshop lasted over a year, had 2 in-person stages in Chile and one remote stage, which made it an alternative to the traditional training processes, with concentrated periods of work and swift progress and others more paused, of reflection and maturation.

Caco Honorato

Loreto Fernández

Thus, “Common Stories” presents 20 series of works relating personal visions on identity, making apparent what has become invisible for being so present.

Domestic esthetics, home embellishment, aging of materials, patches, precarious repairs and all classes of ingenious solutions transforming and maintaining useful the objects that surround us, were the starting point of our research. We believe that repairing and protecting are profoundly Latin American customs that gave form to our esthetical perception.

Common Stories will be presented at 3Stations Art Studio, located in Welserstrasse 15, Munich, from march 9^th till march 12^th. The opening will be at 3pm on Thursday 9^th.

Paulina Latorre

Liliana Ojeda

Valeria Martínez

Monoco

Location

3Stations Space

Welserstrasse 15

81373

Opening hours

Thursday 9th

3 pm - 7 pm

Friday 10th and Saturday 11th

10 am - 6 pm Sunday 12th

10 am - 2 pm

Names of the participants

20 Joya Brava Members:

Paulina Amenábar

Caco Honorato

Vania Ruiz

Pascale Durandin

Monoco

Noelle Labarthe

Valeria Martínez

Gabriela Harsanyi

Rita Soto

Soledad Avila

Ana Nadjar

Loreto Fernández

Paulina Latorre

Natalia Saldías

Liliana Ojeda

Massiel Mar

Mónica Díaz

Pía Walker

Vivana Arévalo

Cecilia Roccatagliata