"Amber Trip" Art Jewellery Contest 2018
"Nothing to declare"
Winners
2018 is a special year for Lithuania as this year the country celebrates its 100th anniversary of the restoration of independence. A hundred years ago we became independent. We have enjoyed human rights and freedoms for a hundred years. We have been choosing what we consider to be right and feel responsible for our own choice. In other words, we live like free people. We can travel in any direction and return to Lithuania, although Lithuania belonged to another state not so long ago. The iron curtain was an almost impossible obstacle for us. All our dreams to see another, free world rebounded from it. To survive today‘s day, we had to overcome a number of ideological and bureaucratic barriers. To return home, we had to shake out our suitcases during customs checks. But now, at the airport, we are quietly passing through the gate named „Nothing to declare“. We have nothing to hide, we have nothing to declare. We can only declare our freedom, and we are grateful for this opportunity to the signatories who signed the Declaration of Independence a hundred years ago.
The jewellery art competition “Nothing to declare” invites artists to announce their freedom in the language of jewellery, to say loudly that we have nothing to declare or hide. On the other hand, we can declare our freedom, freedom to travel and stay in our homeland, freedom of thought and freedom to disagree with others, freedom of being ourselves, freedom of being an artist and freedom from the idea of Independence. Because we have gained such a right. “Nothing to declare” means justice and the possibility of passing through any inspectors with no fear (it is not by accident that we can also see the representative of the Customs of RL among the members of the jury), but above all, the whole set of possibilities. We offer the opportunity to present this by using the metal art. This theme is revealed in works of the participants, even 109 of them from 26 countries. We picked 50 best works for the Traveling Exhibition.
The Winners:
Grand Prix
Isabel Tristán Ochoa (Spain)
„Just Now"
Click here to see works in 360°:
https://orbitvu.co/001/tyecWa26SQCpmdMLjuuPFP/ov3601/3/view
https://orbitvu.co/001/Hg3eZiia3DjRYK9unfcC6G/ov3601/3/view
https://orbitvu.co/001/NnaNPQGCnkZQeh3PGFwCeK/ov3601/3/view
The Catalans want the same thing as the Lithuanian people achieved 100 years ago. We respect the multiculturality of our people, we want to go together and free, without lies, respecting freedom of expression, we do not want an oppressive state, that does not respect our culture or our notorious history. Tired of waiting.
AWARD in the category of AMBER
Andrea Wagner (Netherlands)
"Golden Waters Cave Under Amber Lakes"
Click here to see works in 360°:
https://orbitvu.co/001/n4yE6ZAAAH84BeUVtwiNsk/ov3601/3/view
https://orbitvu.co/001/6T7pA9zEPs6wxtqKAmnDun/ov3601/3/view
https://orbitvu.co/001/DVGZXAVZfa9UmehH9XYx7G/ov3601/3/view
AWARD in the category of OBJECT
Andrius Gudišauskas (Lithuania)
"I'm so free that's even hard"
AWARD in the category of JEWELLERY
Mansuo Zhu (Germany)
„Through“
AWARD of the RL CUSTOMS representative
Ieva Zigunskaya (Lithuania)
“- Do I declare that, Sir?”
AWARD in the category of OBJECT
Andrius Gudišauskas (Lithuania)
"I'm so free that's even hard"
Honor Mentions:
For lightness
Vita Pukštaitė-Bružė (Lithuania)
„Place under the Sun“
I declare a place under the Sun.
For material
Nassrin Vessalian (Iran)
"Doubts"
To be tranquil of your judgments. Make my stories about doubts and duality, here with no fear.
For internationality
Simona Martinkutė (Lithuania)
"To Find" " Legal happiness " "Liberty screw"
For philosophy
Darja Popolitova (Estonia)
"Metanoia VII" & "Metanoia XV"
I call my jewelry “androgynous”. By this I mean the potential of jewelry that is not stereotyped by gender. Unleashing of these stereotypes happens through understanding gender’s holistic genesis — without breaking onto male/female dualities, but if happens, taking in an account it’s transformable nature — with an opportunity to fuse the dualities back. That is why I used so-called hybrid materials, for example, stabilized wood where all the ultimate qualities you can think of. When you touch it’s surface long enough, you start to feel its wholeness — the sum of opposites of natural and synthetic fused into the smooth and homogeneous matter. The quality of transformation is represented by technique — manually created clay shapes are 3D scanned by phone app and modified into a digital file that cut by machines out of one wooden block. This approach was inspired by the novel of Honoré de Balzac “Seraphita.” The novel tells a story about gender’s conventions that relinquish an androgynous person, who is like an angel on the verge of a final transformation which will rid him of his body and carry him to heaven. Similar to a principle of androgyny is technology’s bodiless character.
For position
Alix Manon (Belgium)
"NO means NO"
For scent
Kristy Bujanic (Belgium)
”Ode To Family”
Jury:
Laima Kėrienė (LT)
Jurgita Grajauskaitė (LT)
Giedymin Jablonski (PL)
Arvīds Endziņš (LV)
Tanel Veenre (EE)
Sergiusz Kuchczyński (PL)
Art Jewellery contest "Nothing to Declare" participants:
Zohar Valach
Mansuo Zhu
Natalia Majchrzak
Ольга Чернышова
Leda D'Argent
Mary Efanova
Alix Manon
Anastasia Pindera
Benjamin Bermúdez Jiménez
Romualdas Inčirauskas
Ena and Ebrahim Mulavdic-Mohammadian / Jewellery EM
Isabel Tristán Ochoa
Azam Ghahremani
Wojciech Jerzy Bryłka
Ariel Lavian
Agata Marglewska
Nassrin Vessalian
Andrea Wagner
Jessica Grespi
Eglė Šitkauskaitė
Lillian Fitzpatrick
Esther Ervin
Kairi Sirendi
Magdalena Maślerz
Rasuolė Jautakytė
Jieun Park
Deniz Turan
Agostina Laurenzano
Adrienn Pesti
Pei Wu
Iren Gabeliia
Karina Lazauskaitė
Darja Popolitova
Julia Ortega Canalda
Ji Young Kim
Helen Clara Hemsley
Edvinas Busarovas
Yichen Dong
Filiz Ates
Frans Beelen
Vita Pukštaitė-Bružė
Sara Chyan
Adela Schickerova
Tomas Vaičaitis
Daria Semyonova
Heidi Lykke Petersen
Merike Balod
Yaroslava Kellermann
Ксения Волегова
Анастасия Хлебникова
Karolina Šiburkytė
Anna Pervolaraki
Maja Houtman & Karin wichers
Vilma Laužikienė
Maria Konschake
Laurent Brune
Robertas Krapavickas
Una Mikuda
Ilze Egle
Katarzyna Wasielewska
Dot Melanin
Gabija Gataveckaite
Courtney Hyland
Azure (Qianwen)Zhang
Aisegul Telli
Andrius Gudišauskas
Agnė Žaltauskaitė
Andrea Vaggione
Simona Žižytė
Ieva Zigunskaya
Sofia Bankeström
Vitalijus Milkintas
Airidas Skublickas
Simona Martinkutė
Marija Radosavljević
Gintarė Janulaitytė
Ieva Laskevičiūtė
Marius Zakaras
Emilija Kasperavičiūtė
Eglė Širvytė
Marcia Neuner
Gintarė Grigalytė
Ugnė Burvytė
Karina Kazlauskaitė
Rasa Jundulaitė
Marcin Bpguslaw
Barbara Ludwicka
Dalius Ilginis
Raffaella Nisi
Eglė Tamošiūnaitė - Marcinkienė
Maria Do Vale
Maciej Brewczyk
Frilli Colombo
Joanna Mach
Мария Мамкаева
Aura Paulikienė
Laura Motiejūnaitė
Kristy Bujanic
Diana Dudek
Lauryna Kiškytė
Michal Fatyga
Felicija Kelmickaitė
Jurgita Erminaitė - Šimkuvienė
Adelė Šumkauskaitė
Irena Žukauskytė
Agnieszka Tchorzewska
Katarzyna Rakowiecka
Martyna Wydmanska
Rokas Kašėta