Autobiography of a Jewelry Artist: the Writing Experience by Ana Passos

To what extent are we able to outline a narrative that constantly investigates the meaning of our work to make it increasingly relevant and approachable? We live immersed in our demanding and fast temporality, having difficulties elaborating a speech about our experience and its results, but who better than ourselves to present them to the world?

Memory, identity, self-writing, artist’s archives, and curatorial statements will be discussed. The main objective is to stimulate autobiographical exercise in the jewelry studio and in life as a means of achieving an empowering reflection on relevance as well as a sensitive communication of one’s own body of work.


Where: Zoom.
Dates: 4 meetings on Wednesday, 10, 17, 24, and 31 Mar, from 8 pm - 10 pm (GTM-3).
Price: R$ 480,00.
Language: Portuguese.


About Ana Passos
She is an independent Brazilian jewelry artist, researcher, and writer. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Education, Art, and History of Culture at Mackenzie University. Her research focuses on the relation of jewelry with memory, affection, and identity. She holds a master’s degree in Social Memory and Documentation from UNIRIO. Literature and history are constant influences on her work. She is the author of The Jewelry of Reny Golcman (2015) and Jewelry in Bahia from the 18th and 19th centuries (2017), with the photographer José Terra. She currently lives in São Paulo.