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Empar Juanes Sanchis

Jeweller
Published: 20.11.2024

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Empar's work is a spatial experience - an intimate architecture that exists in the tension between the stone and lightness, between the body and the space created by the void.
Empar Juanes Sanchis. Empar Juanes Sanchis

Bio

After finishing her Master in Architecture, in which she gathered experience within Spain, Germany and China, Empar experienced a necessity for crafts and expressive freedom in her life. She decided to drive her career into a more creative and handcrafted direction, so she started to study Design in Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design, where she had in July 2019 her Bachelor’s Degree from.

She discovered stonework during her exchange semester in Idar-Oberstein, Germany, and she got totally fascinated about this material. What she most loves about carving stone is the power of transforming such a resistant and heavy material into delicate and lightweight jewellery.

Statement

Stone is meticulously shaped to evoke architectural forms—minimalist yet complex. They inhabit a dimension that both embraces and transcends the body.

She patiently selects and opens raw stones, to find one that has enough size, uniformity, absence of veins, inclusions, or fractures, suitable for a three-dimensional work. Taking great risks, she cuts each stone with precise accuracy, followed by a meditative carving process where her deep understanding of geometry guides her hands into fluid movements. Through this careful craftsmanship, she pushes the material boundaries of stone, transforming it into ethereal, almost immaterial jewelry pieces.

Empar Juanes’ work is a spatial experience—an intimate architecture that exists in the tension between the stone and lightness, between the body and the space created by the void.
 

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2024:
Workshop  15 Nov 2024 - 17 Nov 2024  Stone Carving Workshop with Empar Juanes.
Workshop  09 Sep 2024 - 15 Sep 2024  Contemporary jewellery retreat at PEDRA casa estudi.
Award giving  02 Mar 2024 - 02 Mar 2024  Winners of the Herbert Hofmann Prize 2024.
Fair  28 Feb 2024 - 03 Mar 2024  Schmuck Fair 2024.
2023:
2021:
Award giving  23 Apr 2021 - 15 May 2021  BKV Prize 2021 Winners.