Daniela Torres Suárez. EASD València. New Talents Award Nominee 2025

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Published: 29.12.2025

Daniela Torres Suárez.

Author:: EASD València

Edited by:: Klimt02

Edited at:: Barcelona

Edited on:: 2025

The 11th edition of the New Talent Award 2025 by Klimt02 aims to recognize the work of graduate students in our field by supporting their careers in the professional world. Nominated by our school members, one of the selected graduates will win the New Talents Award.

The collection addresses the process as a symbol and folding as a lasting gesture that captures the temporality of change.

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Name of graduation student: Daniela Torres Suárez
Name of guiding teacher: Ángela Bermúdez
Nominated by EASD València

Daniela presents a project in which geometry, technique, and precision lead us into a private universe of beauty. Mom3ntos traces a line of life and simultaneously gives form to the process through which a passion for textile techniques is transformed into jewelry through a delicate metamorphosis. The project consolidates a personal language, developed consciously and consistently throughout her studies.
/ Ángela Bermúdez

The statement of the artist:
M O M 3 N T O S is a contemporary jewelry project that explores folding as a process, structure, and language. The collection is organized in three moments reflecting transformation, transition, and consolidation, where each fold functions simultaneously as a technical gesture and a metaphor. Folding becomes a medium to translate experiences, emotions, and personal changes into unique material forms.

Folding has accompanied humanity since ancient times as a fundamental action for transforming flexible materials. What began as a utilitarian gesture—folding hides, leaves, or textiles— gradually acquired symbolic, aesthetic, and structural value. Today, folding spans disciplines such as art, design, and architecture, operating both as a constructive method and as a visual language capable of transforming flat surfaces into three-dimensional structures.

My background in fashion design led me to textile pleating as a craft technique able to modify the shape, texture, and behavior of materials. In this project, folding is translated into contemporary jewelry as a silent language through which ideas, emotions, and experiences are translated into paper, fabric, and metal. The controlled repetition of folds functions as a research tool, where the process is as important as the final result.

Geometry serves as the formal starting point. Simple structures generate dynamic and balanced folding patterns, adaptable to different materials without losing structural coherence. The collection includes three pieces—a fan and two brooches—representing three moments of my experience as a migrant. Paper acts as a conceptual support and origin; fabric introduces flexibility, movement, and temporality; and metal provides structure, resistance, and permanence. The pleating technique allows for two highly structured pieces and one more organic form, demonstrating how the same folding logic can generate both rigidity and fluidity. Changing the material does not alter the pattern, but modifies its behavior, highlighting the relationship between form, technique, and material.

Paper, fabric, and metal engage in a dialogue between the visible and the hidden, the flexible and the structured, transforming into contained and poetic forms. The collection addresses the process as a symbol and folding as a lasting gesture that captures the temporality of change.

Technically, all pieces are developed primarily folding. Metal is laser-cut and folded without soldering, using hinges, rivets, and cold connections that respect the structural logic of the pattern. Pleated elements are shaped with paper molds; to transfer the geometry, the metal mesh is pressed, and fabric is heat-set. Connections between paper, fabric, and metal are executed with visible stitching, reinforcing the project´s process-oriented nature. Each piece, handmade, possesses a unique artistic and functional character. They are portable and displayable objects that together create a coherent narrative based on repetition, variation, and transformation.

M O M 3 N T O S conceives folding as a material archive, where each fold preserves the memory of a moment, the trace of an emotion, and the ephemeral beauty of a process suspended in time.

Contact:
E-mail: dt.dtorres.art@gmail.com / daniela.torres066@gmail.com
Instagram: @dt.dtorres

Find out more about EASD València

Object: MOM3NTO #1 by Daniela Torres Suárez.Silver–plated brass, copper, paper and thread. 2025.19 x 6 x 2.5 cm.Photo by: Daniela Torres Suárez.From series: MOM3NTOUnique piece.

Daniela Torres Suárez
Object: MOM3NTO #1, 2025
Silver–plated brass, copper, paper and thread
19 x 6 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Daniela Torres Suárez
From series: MOM3NTO
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Estimated price: 1700 €

Brooch: MOM3NTO #2 by Daniela Torres Suárez.Fabric, copper mesh, copper and silver. 2025.24 x 7 x 6 cm.Photo by: Daniela Torres Suárez.From series: MOM3NTOUnique piece.

Daniela Torres Suárez
Brooch: MOM3NTO #2, 2025
Fabric, copper mesh, copper and silver
24 x 7 x 6 cm
Photo by: Daniela Torres Suárez
From series: MOM3NTO
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Estimated price: 650 €

Brooch: MOM3NTO #3 by Daniela Torres Suárez.Fabric, copper mesh, stainless steel mesh, copper and brass. 2025.12 x 12 x 4 cm.Photo by: Daniela Torres Suárez.From series: MOM3NTOUnique piece.

Daniela Torres Suárez
Brooch: MOM3NTO #3, 2025
Fabric, copper mesh, stainless steel mesh, copper and brass
12 x 12 x 4 cm
Photo by: Daniela Torres Suárez
From series: MOM3NTO
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

Estimated price: 1100 €