Ana Margarida Carvalho

What about the pearls and their necklaces? From symbol of wealth and opulence to symbol of sobriety, from fantastic jewelery, sensual and transgressive to the modelof bourgeois modesty, the pearls surround us in multiple scenarios and multiple senses.

Beside the quiet collar of the grandmothers, we have Louise Brooks's or Emmanuelle's, alongside the puritanical collar of the typical North American executive (the only permissible jewel in the almost masculine uniform), we have the excessive adornments of the rajas of India, not to mention the earring of the girl from Vermeer, or from a corsair turned into a virginal little girl's earring.

The pearl is born, like Venus, from a shell, but we do not recognize in it the same erotic and libertarian appeal. The pearl was domesticated. It is today a symbol of purity, chastity, and restraint and, let's face it, boring!
Cancontemporary jewelry claim as its own the “stone" which seems so classic and conservative today?

 

Marta Costa Reis to Galeria Reverso, September 2017.

 

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De Pérolas para o Ar | Pearls Upside Down

Galeria Reverso | 25.11.2017 - 10.01, 2018

Zwetelina Alexieva, Ela Bauer, Sofia Björkman, Ana Margarida Carvalho, Beatriz Horta Correia, Marta Costa Reis, Paula Crespo, Suzanne Esser, Dulce Ferraz, Laura Frazão Matos, Grego Garcia, Masako Hamaguchi, Sophie Hanagarth, Castello Hansen, Herman Hermsen, Leonor Hipólito, Claudia Hoppe, Melanie Isverding, Stephanie Jendis, Kaori Juzu, Lauren Kalman, Heejoo Kim, Young-I Kim, Daniel Kruger, Birgit Laken, Typhaine Le Monnier, Helena Johansson Lindell, Réka Lörincz, Vera Pinto, Aurea Praga, Philip Sajet, Nikolay Sardamov, Claude Schmitz, Danni Schwaag, Carlos Silva, Etsuko Sonobe, Joanne T, Terhi Tolvanen, Tanel Veenre