sábado, 11 de febrero de 2017

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. 



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