LAURA LEYT, Argentina
Framed necklace
The research I have been doing into new ways of recycling plastic has led me to a plastic panel that is very similar to action painting, an art movement where the materials and colours chosen express movements and energy. From that visual resemblance and its spirits, I proposed a play between the paintings and pieces of jewelry, delving into the concept of “wearable art”, which opened up questions such as: “Is it possible to decorate our bodies with paintings that hang on the walls?” “Is it possible to include a piece of jewelry in a painting and take it out of it to make it wearable?” “How?”
In this project, which I have called “Action Plastic/Wearable Art”, the jewelry is conceived as part of the painting, but with the possibility of being removed from it and worn.
Material: recycled plastic, old frames, ribbon
Technique: melting plastic with heat, construction
She is an architect; she graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 1989. Between 2003 to 2019, she trained in contemporary jewelry with Jorge Castañón. She participated in workshops with Jorge Manilla, Peter Vermandere, Lin Cheung, Lisa Walker, Nelly Tanner, Ramon Puig Cuyás, Charon Kransen, Francisca Kweitel and Marina Massone, and has also completed workshops in textiles and felting. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Argentina and abroad, including Schmuck
2020 and 2024 in Munich. In 2018, she received the Argentine Jewelry Award at the 2nd Latin American Biennial of Contemporary Jewelry. In 2022, she obtained a postgraduate professional qualification in Environmental Humanities at the Intersection of Art and Technology at UNTREF University, where she also is a member of the Bionuma team and participates in biomaterials research. She lives and works in Buenos Aires.
Instagram: @leyt_motiv
