EXPO ‘TRASCENDIERON’ – Mutuo Centro de Arte, Barcelona (ES) – 8-10 Oct. 2015
TRASCENDIERON A SOLO SHOW BY MARÍA IGNACIA WALKER
at Mutuo Centro de Arte
OPENING ON OCTOBER 8, 2015 FROM 8.30 pm TO 11 pm
Alchimia is proud to present Trascendieron, a solo exhibition by Chilean graduating jewellery artist Maria Ignacia Walker opening at the independent cultural centre Mutuo in Barcelona on October 8, 2015. This is the first in a series of solo exhibitions realized by the graduating students of Alchimia’s MFA program 2014/2015, each happening in a diffezrent city, from Prague to Antwerp, between October 2015 and April 2016
MFA JEWELLERY AND BODY ORNAMENTS
Alchimia contemporary jewellery School
2013 – 2015
« mi proyecto de graduación del Master en Bellas Artes »
Materials: Porcelain / Horsehair / Resin / Gold thread / Gold
Porcelana / Cabellos de caballo / Resina / Hilo de oro / Oro
“Mis joyas son el resultado de un dialogo con mi propio cuerpo”
María Ignacia Walker, joyera contemporánea nacida en Chile, con un background en dirección de arte publicitaria.
Actualmente reside en Florencia, luego de haber realizado un Magíster en joyería contemporánea y ornamentación del cuerpo en Alchimia School of Contemporary Jewellery.
Su trabajo nace a partir de la investigación de rituales propios traducidos en amuletos y objetos conceptuales que expresan su esencia y se conectan con su cuerpo mediante performances
Maria Ignacia Walker Trascendieron 7 – 2015 Necklace-object, 8 x 59 cm, porcelain, horse hair and gold thread Photo by Marcos Bucco, courtesy of the artist
A simple fact of life that María Ignacia Walker obsesses over: The shedding of hair.
The obsession – losing them, collecting them, ordering them, measuring them and archiving them. The desire – to preserve these losses – It gives rise to “transcendieron”.
The discourse is not about beauty and it is not about sensuality, not even about cultural symbols that hair carries.
How much hair do you lose constantly, everyday?
How many pieces grow out of your body and die every moment?
“The transcendents” are a homage to the moments when you lose your hair.
Captured and immortalized in the fragility of the porcelain, they give perpetuity and freeze all their expressions in the moment of their detachment from the body.
With a threading method, the artist uses horsehair as connectors. They show the lightness, energy and freedom, while demonstrating the real, natural movement of the hair.
Together with the act of keeping and protecting the hair in a porcelain form, they are given another life that keeps them present through their absence.
Un simple hecho cotidiano que obsesiona a María Ignacia Walker: El desprendimiento del cabello.
Perderlos, recopilarlos, ordenarlos, medirlos y archivarlos. El deseo de preservar estas pérdidas da origen a “Trascendieron”.
Un discurso que no es sobre belleza, tampoco de sensualidad y menos de los símbolos o conceptos culturales que existen a partir del cabello.
¿Cuántos cabellos se desprenden constantemente?
¿Cuántas veces al día se desprenden partes del cuerpo?
“Trascendieron” es un homenaje a la muerte de los cabellos, los que son plasmados e inmortalizados a través de la frágil porcelana, que les otorga perpetuidad y congela las expresiones de cada uno de ellos al momento de su adiós.
A modo de hilo, la artista usa los cabellos de caballo como conectores. Ellos entregan libertad, ligereza y energía, características propias de los movimientos naturales del cabello.
Junto al acto de preservar los cabellos en estas formas de porcelana, se hace presente su vida en la ausencia de la misma. - Text: Josefina Monsalve
Maria Ignacia Walker Trascendieron 1 – 2015 Necklace-object, 28 x 45 cm, porcelain, horse hair and resin Photo by Marcos Bucco, courtesy of the artist
Maria Ignacia Walker Trascendieron 13 – 2015 Brooch, 7 x 8 cm, porcelain, horse hair and gold Photo by Marcos Bucco, courtesy of the artist
Maria Ignacia Walker – Trascendieron – 2015
Maria Ignacia Walker Trascendieron 14 2015 Brooch, 11 x 13 cm, porcelain, horse hair and gold Photo by Marcos Bucco, courtesy of the artist
Maria Ignacia Walker – 2015 – TRASCENDIERON – Materials: Porcelain / Horsehair / Resin / Gold thread / Gold Porcelana / Cabellos de caballo / Resina / Hilo de oro / Oro
Maria Ignacia Walker – 2015 – TRASCENDIERON – Materials: Porcelain / Horsehair / Resin / Gold thread / Gold
Maria Ignacia Walker – 2015 – TRASCENDIERON – Materials: Porcelain / Horsehair / Resin / Gold thread / Gold
Maria Ignacia Walker - 2015 – TRASCENDIERON – work in process …
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