Panapaná is the word from the Tupi language, spoken by native Brazilians, that defines a kaleidoscope of butterflies. This collective fills the air with a lightness that almost materialises what is about to happen.

Simple, pure lines aim to translate this latency and desire to achieve what the eyes cannot see.

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1st prize in Alice Floriano Gallery's FIO Contest (National/Brazilian Professional category – 3rd edition)

Autor Media Award | FIO Contest

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Photos: Léo Ramos Chaves

Revisiting the Panapaná collection, silver threads now draw the air, enhancing an ethereal and elusive shine.
(2023)

Brass and 900 silver

:: Photos: Léo Ramos Chaves

Every pause has a constant movement in it.

Silver 950
(2023)

:: Photos: Léo Ramos Chaves

“... the terrain was steep, as if we were leaving the valley and reaching a sort of plateau, [...], which extended as far as the night allowed us to see.

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They were hundreds of illuminated dots, which came across the treetops and took up the entire front of the house, floating in the nostalgic landscape that made us equals. [...] The insects came like a magic cloud, an unstable body that tears itself apart and reassembles endlessly, blown by the darkness, in search of the Land with no Evil.”

[Excerpt from Natural Reserve, by Rodrigo Lacerda]

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Inner Topography brooches
Nature hides and exposes the clash and coexistence of forces that always find their balance in defiance. As we enter this terrain, our own interior is revealed, transcending our borders and reservations, in communion with this Nature as neglected as the foundation of each one of us.
Copper and enamel

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Brooches made for Tincal Lab Challenge – Jewelry and Literature, 2022. Oporto, Portugal

“The river is a river of stones, a river of animals, a river of the wind, a river of water, a river of many ​things. ​The river is not dependent on water. We’re talking about the flow. A river of growth that flows through the trees and the land.”​
[​Andy Goldsworthy, Rivers and Tides​]​

​Confluent series
Hammered 950 silver​ finds unexpected and unique connections resulting in necklaces, brooches, rings, and earrings that rest on your body.

:: Photos: Léo Ramos Chaves

Experimental music notations inspired this collection. The open notation gives autonomy and creates an interactive, playful game that unites the sound and the visual. Time and rhythm form a “musical object”.

(2023)

:: Photos Léo Ramos Chaves

Could we shape the water?

Uncarved aquamarine and 950 silver

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Photos: Léo Ramos Chaves and Letícia Massula

Changes in the state of the matter, transitions and permanences.
The contrast between two crystals – salt and diamond –, one ephemerous, the other permanent.

A jewel that transforms itself.

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950 oxidized silver and salt crystals (and) diamond

[…]
Birds started arriving,
bright red, gasping, songless.
They perched here and there
before turning into stone.
I’ve stopped feeling sorry.

Poets before me
and still more poets after me
sing of death and prison.
Girls stuggle and give in while soldiers commit suicide
in the heart of the conquered city.
I hold out, imagining
a land that finally stripped of useless plants,
an extraordinary country, naked and tender
and somehow melodious,
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(excerpt of Middle Age, by Carlos Drummond de Andrade)

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Collection made of Iron ore with Steel wire and/ or gold leaf. Base structure on 950 silver or yellow gold-plated 950 silver

A moment of respite.

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950 silver and diamond

Photos: Léo Ramos Chaves

This collection is about fragility, an urge for freedom, and awareness about our relationship with Nature. It is a composition of a wood bark taken from a peeled tree during this pandemic and a brass cast bark.

The peeled trees give us a sense of liberty and resilience. The brass bark perpetuates the moment, like a photograph or a memento mori.

A geometrical and minimalist structure joins both barks and makes them rest on your body as if they were a wing born out of the earth.

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Year: 2020
Material: Wood and brass

Dimensions

Shoulder piece: 82 x 20 x 8 cm
Necklace: 41 x 22 x 3 cm
Bracelet: 40 x 11 x 9 cm
Ring: 22 x 7 x 3 cm

Photo: Renato Parada (Shoulder piece and necklace)

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Bracelet and ring selected for Artistar Jewels Milano Jewellery Week 2021-2

Shoulder piece, necklace and sculpture at Cluster Contemporary Jewellery

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We are not the only species that lives and loves and breathes on this planet called Earth. May we raise a fistful of ash to other lives lost that it holds. Grief is love. How can we hold this grief without holding each other? I will mark my heart with an ‘X’ made of ash that says, ‘the power to restore life resides here.’ The future of our species will be decided here, not by facts, but by love and loss. Let us cry every day like rain in the desert.

(excerpt of An Obituary for the Land, Terry Tempest Williams)

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Bark bracelet
2020
15 x 9 x 8 cm
Brass and 950 Silver
Photo: Renato Parada
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Esteio bracelet
2021
14 × 7,5 × 5 cm
Brass
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Cocoon brooch
2021
7 × 5,5 × 5 cm
Brass, 950 silver
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Shelter Bracelet
2021
10,5 × 8 × 7 cm
Prata 950 e latão
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Landing Brooch
2021
7 × 5,5 × 5 cm
Brass, 950 silver
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Nest Ring
2021
7 × 5,5 × 5 cm
Brass, 950 silver
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Feather Pendant
2021
12 × 2 × 2,5 cm
Brass, 950 silver

Photos: Léo Ramos Chaves

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Exhibited on Brazil Jewellery Week 3 e Cluster Contemporary Jewellery (2021)

Collection made of acrylic cubes where I've found unexpected landscapes.

Acrylic and 950 silver.

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Year: 2019

Exhibited on 2020 Juried Student Exhibition GRIT TO GOLD

These rings are a tribute to Margaret De Patta, a modernist jeweller from the USA. Reflections, transparencies, shadows and the spaces created by them lead this project.

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Year: 2020

Photogram 1
Sterling silver
5,5 x 6 x 4 cm

Photogram 2
Sterling silver and copper mesh
7,5 x 8 x 4 cm

Photo: Renato Parada

Sergio Camargo, a 1960’s Brazilian sculpture, inspired this collection

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950 silver

Photos: Letícia Massula and Léo Ramos Chaves

A forgotten object becomes a jewel.

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Yellow gold plated 950 silver and hairnet.

Photos Letícia Massula and Léo Ramos Chaves

Unexpected encounters, roughness and minimalism become one.

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950 silver and iron ore

Photos Léo Ramos Chaves

These pieces were made from the idea of ​​vision loss. Fragility is the main element in a web of fibreglass and resin. The lenses emphasize small details giving us new perspectives.

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Year: 2019

Fibreglass, resin, lenses and brass

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Ring selected for 2020 Juried Student Exhibition GRIT TO GOLD

950 silver and diamonds

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Photos Léo Ramos Chaves

900 silver e 950 oxidized silver

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Photo: Léo Ramos Chaves

950 silver

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Photo: Léo Ramos Chaves

950 silver and rutilated quartz

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Photo: Letícia Massula and Léo Ramos Chaves

950 silver and rutilated quartz 

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Photo: Letícia Massula & Léo Ramos Chaves

Oxidized silver

950 textured silver

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Photo: Letícia Massula

950 silver