Shining DESPAIR
Selma Leal
Spain

Brooch “Lady Musgrave”, 2017
Silver, stainless seel
Lost wax

Brooch “Lady Musgrave”, 2010-25
Silver, gold, enamel, stainless seel
100x80x30mm
Lost wax, enameled

« The desperation of corals shines before our eyes through their bleaching, » making coral bleaching a vivid representation of Shining Despair. This phenomenon, where corals expel the symbiotic algae living within their tissues, reveals a skeletal white form that is starkly beautiful yet tragically indicative of their distress. The term « Shining Despair » perfectly captures this contradiction—the radiant, almost ghostly glow of the bleached coral is, in reality, a desperate cry for help, a final, brilliant display before death.

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Shining Despair – Uri Samet / Israel

From circumstances defined mostly by despair, anguish and darkness – small fragments of light emit.

Shining Despair – Malene Kastalje / Denmark

I am preoccupied with the unpredictable and abnormal aspects of life.

Shining Despair – Javier Ens / Spain

Alchemical Landscape is a ring that evokes the shape of a monolith …

Shining Despair – Aimee Howard-Clinger / USA

The western world can be defined by the adage ‘knowledge is power’.

Shining Despair – Gloria Tormo / Spain

What are our despairs, where do they come from …

Shining Despair – Eliane-Catrie Blouin Achim / Canada

With the Rose Cochon series, Éliane-Catrie Blouin Achim expresses a profound sense of despair.

Shining Despair – Willy vande Velde / Belgium

The ring is part of the communication series.

Shining Despair – Sébastien Carré / France

In these complicated times we are living through I feel quite angered …

Shining Despair – Eiko Nakahara / Japan

In the current state of the world, people hate each other and there are countries full of hatred.

Shining Despair – Jeannette Knigge / Netherlands

Looking at the world from behind your curtains, untouchable yet vulnerable.