After finishing her Master in Architecture, in which she gathered experience within Spain, Germany and China, Empar experienced a necessity for crafts and expressive freedom in her life. She decided to drive her career into a more creative and handcrafted direction, so she started to study Design in Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design, where she had in July 2019 her Bachelor’s Degree from.
She discovered stonework during her exchange semester in Idar-Oberstein, Germany, and she got totally fascinated about this material. What she most loves about carving stone is the power of transforming such a resistant and heavy material into delicate and lightweight jewellery.
This year, she has been awarded with the Herbert Hofmann Prize, the worldwide renown artistic jewelry prize, held during the special exhibition “Schmuck,” which has been curated annually during the “Internationale Handwerksmesse” in Munich since 1959.
Constantly pushing the boundaries of stone as a material, her work is all about resistance, tension, and volatility, where taking risks is essential. What she loves most about stone carving is transforming a raw, heavy stone into ethereal and almost immaterial jewelry pieces. Beyond her work with stone, Empar Juanes expresses her inner world between the material and the immaterial. With this multidisciplinary approach, her media range from artistic jewelry to sculpture, analog photography, and sound art.
Empar Juanes with “Tensed 2” brooch. Agate, silver. Photo by Guangmin Huang.
EMPAR JUANES SANCHIS
19. October 1990 (València)
Spanish
Contact
emparjuanes@gmail.com
+34630923290
@emparanoia
