Tangles I Brooch

Bio

Lorena Jarpa Leal, was born in Punta Arenas, in the extreme south of Chile, and currently lives in Santiago, Chile. Her artistic ability. She was stimulated by family tradition. In the search for a work cohesive with my private world, my interests, my vision of the human, the subjective and my choice of a life far from stereotypes, I drift to the language of conceptual-experimental jewellery and approach it as an art device, taking it to a conceptual displacement that dissociates it from traditional codes so that my pieces are not limited to only one materiality, everything can be used to build. The materials invite me to activate my senses and they listen to the material. My poetics is linked to philosophy, poetry and art, they are part of my everyday life. My pieces are born after a reflective life experience, an investigation, an apprenticeship, each of my pieces are the result of my connection with all the existence that is in my environment as well as inside me.

Artist Statement:

In my proposals I work with experimental techniques, I use remnant and obsolete fabrics, I use materials such as tangled yarns left over from the family trade, tailoring and design. I combine construction with metals such as silver, copper mixed with silver powder. The mechanisms of the brooches are my most recent designs. In my proposals I suggest the integration of materials, I take the leftovers from the creative process of the family trade, tailoring and costume design, thread cones as molds, paper, tangled threads, remnants of fabrics, I appropriate certain stages of trades that are part of my family heritage, molding, sewing, custom construction.