Take a walk on the Grey Area

Take a walk on the Gray Area

Starting Wednesday 27th August, the blog Walking the Gray Area will act as a forum for a group of Latin American and European artists and jewellery-makers for the exchange of thoughts, experiences, ideas, and images on two main topics: jewellery and global mobility.
And for viewers from all over the world to witness in real time, how a jewellery exhibition is developed from scratch.
The curators, Valeria Vallarta Siemelink and Andrea Wagner, have each selected 19 artists from their respective continents: Latin America and Europe.
Each artist has a unique approach to jewellery: different ideas, different interests, different materials and techniques, different countries.
But all artists have one thing in common: like the curators themselves, they are or have all been migrants: born in one place, living/working/studying in another one.

Sebastián Buescher, Dani Soter, Celio Braga, Janetje Felischhut, Carla Castaigo , Vaentina Rosenthal, Francisca Kwetiel , Nelli Tanner, Maria Jose Fabrega , Auli Latinen, Andrea Wagner , Carolina Hornauer, Susanne Klemm , Samantha Fung, Karin Seufert - María Constanza Ochoa, Jorge Manilla, Christoph Zellweger, Luzia Vogt, Telma Aviani, Terhi Tolvanen , Guigui Kohon, Miguel Luciano, Leonor Hipolito, Helena Biermann Angel , Hanna Hedman, Mia Maljojoki , Alejandra Solar, Mirla Fernades, Kajsa Lindberg, Ketli Tiitsar, Chequita Nahar, Ineke Heerkens - Julieta Odio, Walka Studio , Natalie Luder Carolina Vallejo and Eduardo Graue have been randomly paired in 19 couples to explore, through jewellery-related dialogues, issues related to global mobility, identity and territories in dispersion and the way they perceive and have been affected by this phenomena during their rambling around the world.

Each artist will create a jewellery piece as a product of their own dialogue. The resulting exhibition, Walking the Gray Area, will be presented within the frame of the Symposium Gray Area, Encounter of Contemporary Jewellery between Latin America and Europe in Mexico City, April 2010.

The blog and discussions will be moderated by Jose Manuel Springer, writer, curator, editor of the contemporary art magazine Replica 21 and current Attache Culturel of the Mexican Embassy in the Netherlands.
We invite you to visit the Walking the Gray Area blog and to participate in the discussion.

www.grayareasymposium.org/blog