This body of work is the result of 2 years research and study during Virginia Escobar MFA in Contemporary Jewellery and Body Ornament in Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence.

Virginia’s project is about physical identity. She is interested in the meanings of uniqueness and individuality. Today, when cultural identity plays an important role in all its diversity, it’s surprising to see how homogenized the ideal appearance is. New and accessible technologies enable us to construct our body, following social standards that establish the ideas of beauty and perfection.

The pieces presented in this exhibition are made with a self-created material developed over her investigation. To construct the pieces, she utilizes chiseling jewellery techniques combined with thread, staples, steel wire and stainless steel.

Her project is an invitation to recognize and value our unique individuality in its various appearances

The idea of void as a fundamental and precious space is what inspired this project developed by Roberta Consalvo Sances during her Master in Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence.
The concept of void has fascinated humanity since the dawn of time and Zero is Roberta’s personal representation of it.
Her vision echoes the eastern culture conception of the void which places it at the beginning of all things and on which all things depend.
The pieces of this body of work are in fact a celebration of this invisible dimension of which we are not aware of, but without which nothing could exist.
By defining and structuring the space with an industrial steel filter, Roberta wanted to make the void “visible” so that, through perception, it could become a presence and a space not only physical but also mental, the intimate and precious space where everything is free, everything happens and everything can change, the place where our emotions can flow.
In her pieces Roberta therefore wanted to transform the preciousness of the void into jewellery in order to create a body of work in which, in the end, it’s the void itself the real jewel.