Create with Stella Rahola Matutes

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Stella Rahola Matutes

Enric and Roc Majoral collaborate with various creators to bring the world different and enriching points of view of jewelry. After collaborations with artists Gilbert Herreyns, Willie Márquez, Alfons Borrell, and Erwin Bechtold, Create with... follows its path with artist Stella Rahola Matutes.

For the project Create with..., Stella Rahola presents us with the jewel Sa Figa. The pendants are produced in Rahola's and Majoral's workshops. The pieces are all different, numbered, and signed by the artist. It is a small object of art transformed into a jewel.

As a woman, I review the manual techniques historically developed by men (such as blown glass or metal embossing). Starting from crafts as a sustainable, productive, collaborative, and memory process, I ask myself, physically, about the possibilities of doing, as a way of renewing the relationship with our material culture. Through complex, physically demanding, and almost alchemical processes, I claim the crucial role of the hands and the body as knowledge capacities. Subverting these practices to their limits, I aim for a state of transformation of the material, reaching a point of uncomfortable fragility, accentuating its life cycle to dispel the ontological binary of life and matter.
/Stella Rahola Matutes

Presentation
Friday, 11 Dec, 5 pm.

About the artist
Stella Rahola Matutes is a master and architect from the ETSAB, UPC of Barcelona, and a master in art by the Goldsmiths University of London. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, among her latest exhibitions, we could highlight Babelia and Other Stories at Fundació VilaCasas (2019), Politics of Translation in The Stone Gallery in London (2019), Los Angeles Contemporary Fair with Union Pacific (2019), Teoria de l’Alegria Museu d’Art Contemporani d’Eivissa (2020) and is preparing an installation, Beautiful Failures, for April 2021 at the Pavelló Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona.