’CONTAINERS’ - NEW necklaceS by MARTACARMELA SOTELO
For this December 2020 we are thrilled to present Martacarmela Sotelo’s brand new necklace collection.
Designed and handcrafted to bring some colour and funkiness into these grey autumn skies.
MATERIAL: constructed steel wire and powder coating
SIZES vary, approx.: 33 x 12 x 19 cm / 12.99 x 4.72 x 7.48 inches
COLLECTION: 6 individual pieces
EDITION: each is one of a kind
“We all have something to keep, sometimes we hold it within something, it occupies a space, it is kept inside and out of limits. Sometimes it is within us. It is a special something, to be held and contained. These necklaces are composed of a series of Containers, each holding together one vessel after another.”
CONTAINER iN GREEN
Martacarmela Sotelo is an architect, artist, and designer, dedicated to jewellery design. She is living and working in Mexico City. Sotelo studied architecture at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and continued with an MA in Fine Arts at London at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. She was part of the incubator studio program sponsored by the Arts Council of England. Back in Mexico, she was awarded the “Jovenes Creadores” scholarship by FONCA. She was selected for “Artemergente”, National Biennale in Monterrey, Mexico. Later on, she was selected for an art residency in La Curtiduria in Oaxaca.
In 2009 she began working and developing her “wearable art” project. Made out of different materials and forms assembled in non-conventional ways the jewellery she crafts as well as the art pieces are unique. Her pieces have been featured around the World: in the MoMA Store in New York within the ‘Destination Mexico’ platform, at the AGO Museum in Toronto, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, at Bettina Flament Gallery in Lille, at Marion Friedmann Gallery in London, at Galeria Mexicana de Diseño in Mexico City, at the 4th IEEB International experimental printmaking Biennale in Rumania, at “Think Again: New Latin American Jewellery” at the MAD museum in New York, at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Seattle.
She participated in the “Urdimbres Itinerantes” National textile Biennial in Mexico, the “Botánica” exhibition at Medellín Ciento Setenta y Cuatro gallery and at the Hernandez museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina. From 2012-2015 she was director in Mexico for the Otro-Diseño Foundation for Cultural Cooperation and Development, a non-profit organization based in the Netherlands. She has also collaborated as a freelance designer for the famous Mexican silver brand TANE. In 2009 she began working and developing her "wearable art" project. Made out of different materials and forms assembled in non-conventional ways the jewellery she crafts as well as the art pieces are unique. Sotelo develops her work out of a strong concept and idea, with a narrative and story. They are conceptual works, where the wearer is invited to interact and think.
