Mabel Pena
Jeweller
Published: 01.11.2019
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Brooch: Malbec Soul, 2019
Bronze, 3D filaments, steel.
7 x 5.5 x 8 cm
Photo by: Damián Wasser
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Necklace: Delta, biguá, 2018
Silver, recycled polyethylene bags, synthetic fibers.
47 x 12 x 2 cm
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From series: Delta, tides and mysteries
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Bracelet: Delta, 2018
Silver, recycled polyethylene bags.
6.8 x 8 x 0.9 cm
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Necklace: Delta, foliage, 2018
Recycled polyethylene bags, 3D filaments.
58 x 35 x 7 cm
Photo by: Damián Wasser
From series: Delta, tides and mysteries
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Earrings: Mangroves, 2015
Sterling silver, thermo contractible tubes.
15 x 4 x 1 cm
Photo by: Damián Wasser
From series: Nature bursts
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Necklace: Spirit woman, 2016
Nickel silver, recycled polyethylene bags.
30 x 20 x 7 cm
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Bracelet: Alexa 77, 2016
Sterling silver, recycled polyethylene bags.
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Bracelet: Terroir, 2016
Nickel silver, bronze, copper, recycled polyethylene bags, silicone tanza.
9.7 x 9.2 cm
Photo by: Rubén Andón
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Necklace: Traces of Time, 2016
Nickle silver, bronze, copper, disposable plastic bags.
26 x 24 x 5 cm
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Brooch: Tigre Delta, 2016
Sterling silver Nickel silver, copper, loofah, resin.
11 x 10 x 3 cm
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Bracelet: Mourning, 2015
Bronze, copper, nickel silver, silver, loofah.
10.5 x 8 x 1 cm
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Ring: Reborn, 2015
Sterling silver, loofah.
6 x 3 x 1 cm
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Necklace: Nests I, 2014
Nickel silver, bronze, recycled polyethylene bags, loofah.
45 x 22 x 3 cm
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Brooch: Nests II, 2014
Nickel silver, bronze, recycled polyethylene bags, loofah.
18 x 8 x 4 cm
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Ring: Cycles. Nature - transformation II, 2013
Sterling silver, bronze, nylon.
5 x 4.5 x 2.3 cm
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Mabel Pena lives and works in Buenos Aires. She has been teaching art jewelry at her own studio Taller Km 0 since 2002, also at the Mental Health department at Prosam Foundation. She exhibits her work at art galleries and museums in Argentina and abroad: Germany, Chile, China, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, U.S.A. She takes part in numerous jewelry groups.
Statement
My work is inspired by the growingly destructive effects of civilization on the natural world. My pieces illustrate the varied shapes, textures and colors of different landscapes and how these landscapes are changed by plastic waste. The images of plastic bags tangled in the branches, buried in the soil, floating in the rivers, covering beaches or drifting in the seas are translated into pieces of jewelry which become symbols to raise awareness on careless waste disposal. I create jewelry reusing plastic but also including metal and combining the ancient craft with new technologies such as 3d printing.CV 
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