Claude Lescar - France
Claude Lescar
Designer biography:
Claude L was a Graduate professor of Technology. Claude L is a self-taught jewelry artist but she was taught in the work of plastics, fabrics, papers, metals and stones. After training many students (and young teachers) to work with various materials for many years, she decided in 2017 to create contemporary jewelry. Her work has since been featured in numerous international exhibitions, including Artistar Jewels (MJW), Arte y Joya, Simancas Gallery (Spain), Galerie Beeld & Aambeeld (Netherlands), ROJW (Romania), and Galería Lalabeyou (Madrid). In recent years, she has exhibited at Galerie Caractère (Switzerland), Universus (Athens), Sophie (Paris), Tincal Lab (Portugal), and Galleria Carlo Lucidi (Rome), continuing to expand her presence across the European art jewelry scene.
Collection concept
The period we are living has given rise to multiple conflicts. The fragments from these "ravages" leave a chaotic whole, with a common material in cities around the world: concrete. My jewelry are small sculptures to wear, relics, memories of a rich past... on which "visible traces" accumulated over the centuries. I seek to express the fragility of cities through concrete remains bearing the imprints of time and testifying to the richness of the past. Like a poetic journey, my "jewelry-relics" invite us to question our negligence and to appeal to our memory. What image does a society intend to give by destroying or abandoning its 'ruins'? And if these "vestiges", charged with memory, became the supports of a Renaissance...
