All that is solid melts into air, a phrase that belongs to the communist manifesto of Marx and Engels, and the title of a renowned essay by Marshall Berman, represents the ephemeral nature of great ideological convictions. The fallen walls, the collapsed towers, the invading viruses, programmed intelligence, the victims turned into genocides..., if we think about recent events, we can apply the phrase and find the logic that supports it. Everything that we feel as an accurate fact can disappear due to an unexpected turn in life and will put us in a different or contrary situation that we will also experience as an absolute truth. The pieces speak of rubble, of parts of something else that when ordered suggest a new existence, another construction that will once again become a ruin.
Lija Álvarez is the pseudonym used by Yolanda Álvarez in her jewellery designs. Graduating in Fine Arts in 1999, then completing her studies with Doctorate courses in Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art. Since 2006 has taught Volumetric Expression in a public school of Art. In addition, she attends courses on jewellery techniques and is currently developing her artistic practice in contemporary jewellery. In her work, she uses the object and its mark, the game between mold and piece and the proper qualities of the manipulated materials. The composition emerges through the joint reminders of urban constructions and the debris she uses as references.
