Leonor Hipólito: Apparatus, Fragments and überstein

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Leonor Hipólito

Apparatus
Reproductions of medical tools out of tree trunks and branches. Each piece had been planned and shaped after the natural forms existing. Apparatus, from 2007, reinforces the idea of cooperation between the human knowledge, his intelligence and criativity, and the natural world; the importance of being aware of his own acts to find unity within the delicate and subtle state of balance.

Leonor Hipólito

 
Fragments
Series of samples available within its conjunt for a game of self-knowledge. A game that might challenge the idea we conceive about what forms and bounds us. The different pieces, looking like fragments of an anatomical model, are loose and lacking a contextual background - the body of those who will wear them.

This series was realized between the years of 2007 and 2008.

Leonor Hipólito
 

überstein
Series resulting from a residency in the German city Idar-Oberstein, working in the jewelry and gemstone lab from the University of Applied Sciences-Trier, during the summer 2008. This group of works traces the portrait of the very particular experience.

Together with the work, the book überstein will be launched.

Leonor Hipólito