Collier by Jordi Aparicio

The black netting, stacked in rectangular “bricks”, looks massive but is actually light. The black collier requires some kind of imaginary body, it seems that although it is an object to be worn, it would feel much better enclosed under glass, in black frames on a black surface. Contemporary jewellery is very often concerned not only with ideas, but also with emotions.

Jordi Aparicio’s (Spain) collé absorbs pain and longing and encloses them, a kind of transparent box to catch the spirits. Once inside those jagged rectangles, the spirits of pain and longing are nowhere to be found, even though it seems they could. But no. Raised in a family of watchmakers, the artist also continued the family tradition until one day he turned to jewellery and now creates intricate, graphic, emotionally affecting works. Those lines of wire seem to paint inner landscapes, where the soul howls with longing as you walk through them, and the landscape never seems to end. Like time, counting the minutes of joy and sorrow in equal measure.