LENA ECHELLE, Argentina
Meadowlands Series: Bracelet 6
Grassy landscapes in nature are preserved by the occasional forest fire. The first raindrops that fall on a landscape blackened by fire are as transformative as the flames that raged so recently. Seeds sprout in every shade of green and soon spill into a sea of flowers. In the Meadowlands series, wild flowers made of goatskin are a metaphor of life and death, fire and rain, plant and animal.
Material: raw goatskin, wine, yerba mate (tea), paraloid resin, acrylic paint, soap. Paints: acrylic paint and paint from wine and yerba mate.
Technique: scraping, soaking in lime water, drying on a flat surface, painting, cutting, sewing, knitting, weaving, folding, chewing and sealing the surface with soap and a thin coating of acrylic resin.
Biography/Selected Exhibitions
2025 Feria Puro Diseño, La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2025 I Paint Flowers so They Will Not Die, Galleria Carlo Lucidi, Rome, Italy
2025 Piece of Peace, studio WearHouse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2025 Joyas para la Yacurman, itinerate exhibition Centro Cultural Islas Malvinas, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2024 Jewelry and Freedom, Tincal Lab Challenge, Porto, Portugal
2024 Salon Regional de Artes Visuales La Rioja – NOA 2024, La Rioja, Argentina
2024 Codevenir, IV. Latin American Biennial of Contemporary Jewelry, Santiago, Chile
2024 Joyas para la Yacurmana. IV. Latin American Biennial of Contemporary Jewelry, simultaneous exhibition, Mercado Artesanal, La Rioja, Argentina
2024 Past, Present, Future, Bury Art Museum, Bury, England
2024 Jewelry and Travel, Tincal Lab Challenge, Porto, Portugal
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