A Fracturing Practice | Patricia Domingues
Read the AJF Interview featuring the exhibition with Patricia Domingues here: Lines and Fractures
Shop the exhibition here: A Fracturing Practice
Brooklyn Metal Works has the pleasure to invite you to visit the first solo exhibition of the jewellery artist Patricia Domingues in the United States.
MANY & DELIBERATED. Brooch. Necuron, Steel. 50 × 50 × 40 mm. 2014.
Through my artistic practice I have been exploring fracturing movements in both artificial and natural materials. What specifically intrigues me is the tension between intentional acts, such as cutting into the material, and uncontrolled accidents, such as fractures. Through the will to control, the fractures develop and are liberated as the material inevitably cracks in release. The lines, fractures and cuts visible in my work are always the result of repetitive gestures performed on the material and its responsive language. They evoke a sort of geological archive, based on a succession of bodily actions or events. This perspective, that craft interplays with the wilderness found in materials, clashes with classic notions which consider it to be the exercise of masterly control over materials and techniques. Whilst the cut is a premeditated decision, the fracture is partially out of my control since I can never entirely control its shape and intensity within the material. From this non-anthropocentric view, skill is being reinterpreted as a way to relate to materials and landscapes. As I metabolise the crack in my practice, I sporadically feel in tune with it. Whilst creating stages for materials to perform on, establishing a relationship of authorship, I look at myself as an intermediator, as someone who initiates actions that end up having a will of their own.
Patricia Domingues gained a Master of Arts from the University of Trier, Department of Gemstone and Jewellery Design in Idar-Oberstein, Germany in 2013 and a PhD in Visual Arts from the University of Hasselt & PXL-MAD School of Arts in 2022. Since 2009 she has participated in group and solo exhibitions across Europe and further afield.
Her work has received numerous prizes: New Traditional Jewellery in Amsterdam (2012), Talente Award in Munich (2014), Mari Funaki Award for Emerging Artist in Australia (2014) and the Young Talent Prize of the European World Crafts Council in Belgium (2015).
Currently, Domingues is a research fellow at Jewellery-Linking Bodies Department, Gerrit Rieteveld Academie where she investigates how artificial intelligence, metaverse worlds and digital structures frame the way humans think while drastically reshaping the way landscapes are handled. The main focus of her research involves exploring the way technology lives through extractivism, dependent on mineral and geological sources.
We are also hosting an Artist Talk with Patricia Domingues July 16, 2-3PM in the Gallery.
Additionally we are offering an Artist Workshop: Meeting Speculative Nature(s) with Patricia Domingues and Edu Tarín July 17 & 18, 10AM - 5PM
Artist Website: patriciadomingues.pt