Paula Isola
Jeweller
Published: 25.01.2022
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Paula Isola is an Argentine artist and cultural manager who strives to broaden the Argentine public's perspective on contemporary jewellery through her participation in the organisation of the Latin American Biennials of Contemporary Jewellery. She is a specialist in the production of critical texts and the media dissemination of art at the National University of the Arts. Paula Isola also belongs to the Fwiya group and the Caracú group, with whom she exhibits her work as an accomplished jewellery designer.Having studied Industrial Design at the University of BA, and drawing, printmaking and photography at L' École Supérieure d' Arts Visuels, Switzerland, she is well averse to creative endeavours. Paula began 2006 Paula studying contemporary jewellery and she embarked 2015 on studying ‘PAC -Contemporary Artistic Practices’ at the Gachi Prieto Gallery.
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In 2006, I discovered jewelry and it has ever since become my passion. I find in the world of jewelry a place that brings together varied aspects of art and design, and is this combination what attracts me the most. The counterpoint between imagination and ergonomic possibilities becomes a piece of expression that can be carried around, that is portable.Thorough part of my career I have worked with pieces of wood and found-sought objects with the idea of re-contextualize its natural or cultural elements that have fallen in disuse along the way. Pieces of wood in which time and water have left a mark, of old wire fences, of almost unrecognizable furniture; family photographs, old items left in drawers. They all become jewels that work like bridges, evoking something that moves us: Narrative pieces with stories that combine the object’s own story with the new images that arise from the new composition. All that is imperceptible and about to be lost comes back and change its course to become a new narrative.
My most recent work, on the other hand, was developed around words: Words of others but, who owns the words? They were there before we were born and they would still be here when we are gone. Nevertheless we make them ours. They are our creation, our permanent construction: Old, new, ordinary, obscure; they float within reach for us to grab them. In every single moment of time someone is building the world with words, reinventing it.
I have always been attracted by words. I love to underline, to cut, to write, to copy, to paste. Everything that is written and said around me is leaving its imprint on my work. For the work “The Lover” I have taken actual pages from a book that I love: Marguerite Duras' “The Lover”. The pages dismember themselves, the texts flow and mix: new readings arise through the new form.
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