Izabella Petruț graduated last year from Alchimia – School of Contemporary Jewellery founded in 1998 in Florence, with a jewellery collection named „A Love Story”. With the same collection she was selected to participate at Marzee Graduation Show 2012, where she participated at the opening in August, while the exhibition took place in September. A Love Story impresses through the personal element of the story, and reusing daily-use objects only highlights this feeling. Imagine HER borrowing HIS shirt. Izabella did the same thing and she transposes the intimate gesture through her jewellery.
A love story by Izabella Petruț
This is a love story as I remember it. It is about me
being the spectator of a love story that has been going on
for many years. When we remember things, they are fuzzy,
inaccurate, not true sometimes and not in the chronological
order. We mostly remember the feelings. By using the
remains of some inline-skates (rollerblades) he used, the
old-fashioned, out of style, sweat and broken, I take
advantage of all the material and emotional qualities they
are giving me, extracting the value from the objects (skates)
and refining then by changing their state, separating it into
material and emotion.I dissected the memories of this love story by taking
apart the skates, some of them violently, others with care,
focusing on two components: the wheels and the laces. The
wheels are spinning just like love make you feel, while the
laces are there to bind and combine, to boil, to tangle and
make a mess.I use only one color on each piece. The colors are
the ones from the skates he had – denim blue, white, dark
grey. This way the pieces are dematerialized, put in another
context and joined into a new object – a piece of jewelry. The
brooches were made thinking this are the jewels that stay
closer to the heart and the neckpieces because they resemble
the most to hugs.These pieces of jewelry are an accumulation of
feelings, memories, years that have been left behind. There is
no history, just a story.