CAIO MAHIN, Brazil/Portugal
Venus, Invocation Amulets
In this series, I return to Libra through its ruler Venus, not as a distant goddess, but as an intimate force that unsettles gender and identity, especially when raised as a man with a venereal sensibility. Beauty manifests itself as both a mask and a vulnerability. O falo é o palhaço, a child's papier-mâché face with an exaggerated nose, reveals the absurdity of male performativity. Silver rings unite transforming bodies such as breasts, chest, penis and vagina, inviting play beyond binary divisions. Other works lean towards softness, fragility and chance: ribbons that resist rigidity, stones shaped by waves, fossils that destroy time. Beauty becomes a disturbing presence, grotesque, gentle and disarming, and reveals vulnerability as its deepest power.
Material: Silver 930, tulle, shell (from Algarve), pebble (from Estonian coast), fossil (from Cascais)
Technique: Silver casting, stone carving, silversmithing, knitting
Caio Mahin is a Brazilian artist based in Lisbon. He graduated in Design from the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil) and studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology (USA), with a CAPES scholarship, where he first encountered contemporary jewelry. He later completed the jewelry studies at ArCo School (Portugal), where he graduated with a Tereza Seabra Scolarship. This led to his participation in the Designers in Residence 2021 program at the Emma Kreativzentrum in Pforzheim. His work explores gender, sexuality, spirituality, self-narration and psychoanalysis, and moves between art and jewelry design.
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