Lucía Rovira

Bio

Lucía Rovira is a contemporary jewellery artist based in Montevideo, Uruguay. She trained at Escuela de Artes y Oficios Pedro Figari, where she completed her formal training in jewellery in 2000. She works primarily with silver and gold, producing both unique pieces and small series. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Milan Jewelry Week, Cluster Contemporary Jewellery Fair in London, Inflow Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition, and the X Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition in Madrid (Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Museo Cerralbo, and COAM).
 

Statement

My work is grounded in making. It unfolds through repetition and variation, where each decision introduces a shift. I approach form as a field of adjustment: to reduce without simplifying, to refine without closure. I explore how structure is either reinforced or destabilised through minimal interventions. I work with traditional metals, attending to their behaviour and the traces left by the process. Each piece is defined by an economy of means, where form and material do not illustrate an idea, but contain and tension it.


Structural Dependence
Are we still capable of sustaining one another?
With fire, culture was born. Fire and love walked together through the finest aspects of our evolution: ritual, care for one another, the sense of community. Fire made language possible. Language made love possible.
Alone and together we move forward, back to back, traversed by that circle of emptiness that persists within every union. The lack that also defines us.
Let us honor that ancestral fire: the one that shelters, engenders life, tempers, and illuminates. 

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