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Federica Sala

Jeweller
Published: 11.06.2024
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Bio

Federica Sala is a jewellery artist who lives and works in Milan, Italy. After finishing the studies in design at Politecnico di Milano, she got the MFA from Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence. Her work is deeply based on a scientific approach to materials that she manipulates to create new delicate jewellery sculptures that due to their fragility captures all the attention and sensibility of the wearer. Her MFA project was nominated for the Stanislav Libensky Award 2015 and She exhibited at Mad Museum in New York, American Glass Weekend, The Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston and Chicago SOFA.
 

Statement

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn thing is enough.
/Virginia Woolf


There’s a reality to discover, in which everything is possible and looks exactly the opposite of what we know. We’re part of an illusion that we daily contribute to build. We all are liers and we’ve built up a cage of lies that we like to live since we’ve become used to. It seems we feel comfortable in our ignorance and superficiality. We’ve stopped looking for truth and we’ve stopped imaging.  My work is the expression of the need to discover something hidden, going beyond appearance. I want to rise questions about our perception of reality. In order to do so, I grasp the only certainty I have: Science. Like a scientist, I study the properties of materials to create something never seen before: new bodies, new entities that belong to another possible world. I turn them into delicate jewellery pieces that need to be handled with care and once on the body, you can’t think about something except them. My pieces want to make people change their perspective, rising a much more gentle and sensitive perception of themselves and of the surroundings as a consequence.
 

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2024:
Lectures  22 Jun 2024 - 22 Jun 2024  Contemporary Glass Jewelry. A Lecture by Federica Sala.
Exhibition  15 Jun 2024 - 29 Jun 2024  Convivenze by Federica Sala.
Exhibition  14 Apr 2024 - 13 May 2024  The Limit of Emptiness by Federica Sala.
2023:
Exhibition  10 Mar 2023 - 09 Apr 2023  Design Without Borders 2023.
2021:
Exhibition  01 Jun 2021 - 01 Jul 2021  Island #5 by Federica Sala.
2019:
Exhibition  02 Aug 2019 - 22 Sep 2019  Building on the Body: Identity, Materials, Jewelry.
Exhibition  14 Mar 2019 - 16 Mar 2019  A Room of One’s Own.
2018:
Exhibition  03 Oct 2018 - 07 Oct 2018  ABC...BCN.
Meeting  26 Apr 2018 - 29 Apr 2018  Melting Point 2018.
2017:
Exhibition  10 Sep 2017 - 17 Sep 2017  Nothing in Between by Federica Sala.
Exhibition  20 May 2017 - 11 Jun 2017  Merging by Federica Sala and Sara Gackowska.
Exhibition  10 Mar 2017 - 12 Mar 2017  Merging.
Fair  08 Mar 2017 - 14 Mar 2017  Schmuck 2017.
2016:
Exhibition  25 May 2016 - 26 Jun 2016  Adornment. The shape of wearable art.
Exhibition  13 May 2016 - 11 Jun 2016  True Lies by Federica Sala.
Exhibition  26 Feb 2016 - 28 Feb 2016  Unbearable Lightness by Federica Sala.
2015:
Exhibition  16 Nov 2015 - 20 Nov 2015  True Lies. A Collection of Oxymorons by Federica Sala.
Fair  05 Nov 2015 - 08 Nov 2015  SOFA Chicago.
Navy Pier, United States
Exhibition  21 Oct 2015 - 03 Jan 2016  Stanislav Libensky Award.
International Glass Exhibition, ZIBA Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
Exhibition  24 Apr 2015 - 31 Dec 2015  Impressions.
2014:
Fair  09 Oct 2014 - 11 Oct 2014  JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery Fair 2014.
Exhibition  19 Jun 2014 - 26 Jun 2014  Touch: Alchimia Graduation Show 2014.
2013:
Fair  17 Oct 2013 - 19 Oct 2013  JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery Fair 2013.
Exhibition  15 Oct 2013 - 11 Nov 2013  Delirio y Cordura.
Exhibition  30 Apr 2013 - 30 Jun 2013  Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER.
Exhibition  30 Apr 2013 - 30 Jun 2013  Silver Schools.

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Book:  Silver Meetings 2. Contemporary Jewellery in Legnica 2012 - 2019. Gallery of Art in LegnicaGallery of Art in Legnica:  Legnica,  2019
Catalogue:  Stanislav Libensky Award 2015. Prague,  2015
Catalogue:  Joya. Barcelona,  2014
Catalogue:  Legnica Silver Festival. Legnica,  2013
Catalogue:  Fashion Jewellery made in Italy. Antique Collectors Club:  2013
U.S.A
Book:  Joya 2013 Catalogue. Ribeiro, Paulo; Chevallier, AnthonyLe Departement:  Barcelona,  2013
Catalogue:  Delirio y Cordura. Santiago de Chile,  2013
Book:  Alchimia. Massei, LuciaAlchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence:  Florence / Tallinn,