GRAU° Cerâmica x Esquivel. Jewellery

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The exhibition presented this year brings together metal and clay. It reinterprets the language of stelae and monoliths at the scale of the object. It is a moment when matter ceases to be merely nature and begins to carry meaning. This project is born from that instant of transformation. The pieces act as silent markers that alter the space around them. Positioned between the ancestral and the futuristic, they seek neither nostalgia nor science fiction. The insertion of metal into earth is not only a technical act, but a moment of tension and metamorphosis — of the material and of the gaze. The main elements presented are lighting objects, conceived as contemporary artefacts. At once utilitarian and sculptural, they oscillate between function and presence. Light emerges as an almost ritual element, revealing surfaces, densities, and voids that shape the space. The visitor is not a passive observer but an integral part of the installation. Upon entering the space, they encounter a material landscape that evokes a primitive territory crossed by forms of almost futuristic precision. The variation in scale invites approach, movement, and the discovery of these contemporary “monoliths.” The body becomes measure, reference, and instrument of interpretation.
As before a monolith in an archaic landscape, there is a moment of strangeness and recognition. Here, the experience is intimate: the viewer moves among the objects, activates them, and continually redefines the relationship between body, matter, and light.