Ana Pina, Portugal
luta, luto 2 pins
sterling silver, rubber (back)
variable measurements, approximately 30x40-60x1mm
2024
Special limited edition of 50 copies, all different, inspired by the original piece “luta luto” (see ninth photo and following).
Each pair of pins is accompanied by a numbered and signed leaflet, which explains the concept of the piece.
Spread the message, share, wear with pride. Fight for freedom, always.
#50Anos25Abril
“luta luto” is a neckpiece, unique, by Ana Pina.
It is created for the exhibition “Jewels for Democracy”, that opens on April 17 of 2024, at the Royal Treasury Museum, in Lisbon, Portugal, in the context of the II Edition of the Lisbon Contemporary Jewellery Biennial, promoted by PIN, with the title “Madrugada” (Daybreak), in the same year in which we celebrate the 50th anniversary of April 25 of 1974 (the end of dictatorship in Portugal).
An exhibition for the women who made freedom. In response to the invitation of the curator Marta Costa Reis, Ana Pina chooses to honor Ana Hatherly (Porto, 1929 - Lisbon, 2015).
“O Pavão Negro” (“The Black Peacock”), poem written for an exhibition of the writer/painter Ana Hatherly, presented in Porto in 1999, serves as a motto for “luta luto”, piece to “see-read” that plays with the words and its meanings, in an allusion to the “silent scream” that found voice in the daybreak of April 25th of 1974.
50 years. 50 times we write, read, repeat “luta luto”, until the words break free from its weight, “now dissolved in the seduction of the aesthetic object”. Word, blur, “suspended waterfall”, in which the black ink that writes, gains the three-dimensionality and movement that the drawing only alluded to.
Built as a necklace, we look here to a conceptual object, for its dimension and fragility - even though its strength resides in its impermanence as well. For the collar it’s simply used the PLA filament before it is placed in the 3D printing pen, for its ergonomic shape and the desire to simplify the choice of techniques and materials - as if the piece was a continuous drawing, ready to become alive. Placed in the body as in a sheet of paper: “Only then does it unfold / the radiant charm / of its fragile mystery”.
(The quotes throughout the text are from Ana Hatherly, taken from the preface and poem in three parts “O Pavão Negro”, included in the book with the same name. Free translation by the author.)
Note: “luta luto” is a wordplay in Portuguese, “luta” referring to “fight” (noun) and “luto” with two meanings: also “fight” (but now in the verb form, first person singular, as in “I fight”) and/or “grief/mourning” (noun).
