KAIA ANSIP, Estonia/Portugal
Under–represented
Under–represented is a neck piece made of brass platters coated with silver, resembles of the vulva – the portal of birth, the materialiser that transforms antimatter into matter. The work represents a beginning of which ideas are not yet fully formed, but hands are already starting to work. Hands try to meet the idea halfway and transfer it into physical form, to give it tangibility in the best possible way. Sometimes it works but sometimes the materialisation distorts the idea, because the idea itself is not always fully formed. The representation of an idea in physical form cannot be the same as the original idea, because the idea itself can have thousands of representations. Some ideas will always remain under–represented and perhaps it's in their nature not to be expressed or revealed.
Material: silver plated, brass brackets, silver
Kaia Ansip (born in 1984) is an Estonian jewellery artist based in Portugal. She studied jewellery at undergraduate and graduate levels at the Estonian Academy of Arts, where she graduated in 2022. She has finished internships at Ar.Co with Catarina Silva. She has exhibited her works in Portugal, the Netherlands, and Estonia. In 2018, she had a solo exhibition at the Tereza Seabra Gallery, and in 2022, she had a project exhibition at the Reverso gallery.
In 2024, she received the Bergesio Award for her essay Relation to the Body. Since then, she has occasionally written about jewellery for the Art Jewelry Forum and for Portuguese online art magazine Umbigo. Her first education is in philosophy. She lives and works in the heart of Portugal, which has a strong influence on her artistic inspiration and access to materials.
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