Camera Lucida. International Contemporary Jewelry Contest

Artist list

Sara Chyan, Alina Constantinescu, Cleopatra Cosulet, Tania Cruz, Tana Enedi, Vincent Hawley, Roxana Hodorog, Amira Jalet, Helene Jeandot, Ryungjae Jung, Angela Malhües, Ana Marchetanu, Mariolina Mascarino, Arina Nitulescu, Letitia Pintilie, Andreia Gabriela Popescu, Gabriela Secarea, Diana Tobosaru, Sabina Vargas, Monica Wickstrom

How different are we human beings from each other? How many of those concerned about collective traumas will respond to our challenge focusing on revenge, on a righteous justice? The surprise is that healing, normality, beauty, and other ideals of a natural world have been the filters of perception and remembrance of the atrocious events. /  David Sandu - curator of Lucida Camera contest and exhibition.

Camera Lucida - a project signed by Assamblage - The Romanian National Contemporary Jewelry Association that brought together 20 Romanian and international designers from USA, Costa Rica, South Korea, France, Spain, Mexico, Finland, Italy, Spain, selected after an international project competition, around a common theme: the upcoming commemorating 100 years since the ending of World War I. The contest and the resulting exhibition is a challenge to regard jewelry as a new way to convey meaning, as a metaphor for communication, symbols, and language in contemporary design, in a conceptual discourse about the assumption of the common past and cultural identity.
 
On Wednesday, 18th of October, at Galateca Contemporary Art Gallery in Bucharest, Romania, Assamblage will present the results of the international contemporary jewelry competition Lucida. Organized with the support of the AFCN - The Administration of the National Cultural Fund, the exhibition will be opened until 3 November 2017.
 

The international jury that coordinated the selection of designers and the curatorial team of the exhibition consisted of:

• Assamblage National Association for Contemporary Jewelry - David Sandu, Romania
• Artistar Jewels-Milano, Italy
• Krama Institute - Athens, Greece
• Sztuki w Legnicy -The Art Gallery in Legnica, Poland
• AGC Associazione Gioiello Contemporaneo - Italy
• Monique Manoha-Pole Bijoux curator, France
• Daniela Boieri - Alchimia, Italy
• CURRENT OBSESSION Magazine, The Netherlands
• Eimear Conyard - Design & Crafts Council of Ireland

The project started at Romanian Design Week 2017 through the ROOM 40 - Deciphering contemporary jewelry design exhibition, and during September 13 - 30, 2017, it was presented at MNIR - The National Museum of Romanian History. A curatorial selection of Romanian designers was also presented during Joya Barcelona 2017 part of Assamblage Collective.