Catarina Silva
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MunichSchmuckFair2025
Published: 22.07.2026
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I was born in Lisbon and studied jewellery at Ar.Co (Centro de arte e comunicação visual) between 2000 and 2005. I have worked at Galeria Reverso and since 2013 in Galeria Tereza Seabra. Currently I am a teacher as well as the head of the Jewellery Department in the school where I graduated.Statement
Referring to a primitive origin when questioning the relevance and present function of the amulet or protective talisman, I conceived pieces with a surrealistic and neo-pop assemblage that results in the intertwining of ornamental forms that allude to the naturalistic in counterpoint with apparently mechanical and artificial elements. Like a meditative chant, I choose to work with beads for their ritualistic and contemplative character that is in the making. The premise of constructing portable, usable Jewellery associated with the expressive and inventive qualities of drawing and collage enabled contrast between volume and lightness, thus ensuring an ethereal sensation and abstract perception of these pieces. I intend to demonstrate the significance of Jewellery as a discipline with an enriching artistic practice decisive in the definition and construction of culture in contemporary existence.Series My Little Capricorn, 2025
The recent pieces entitled “My Little Capricorn” based on the television series “My Little Pony” aim to recreate the proposal of a fictional language as a symbol of the zodiacal universe and imagination. This series explores and reinterprets the mythological being of Capricorn, reconstructing it as a chimera composed of its goat horns, integrating glass beads, porcelain and other precious metals as otherness and hybridity. The different aesthetics reflect the hidden nature and dynamics, the mystic characteristic of astrological signs in general, the fantastical, metamorphic and iconographic fusion as a structural dreamlike language for creation.
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