Galleria Autori AGC | AGC members gallery
Federica Sala
Italy
Vive e lavora a Milano.
I see our surroundings as an equilibrium of things, most of them uncertain. Through my work I recognize human daily contradictions which I turn into delicate jewelry pieces and objects.
In doing so, I work with unconcealable materials defying the laws of the reality we know, playing with their nature and looking for a visual dialogue between opposites.
All my pieces are created after a long process of material experimentation in order to subvert the common way of experiencing.
Since 2013 I chose glass as my elective material which stays for a constant metaphor of bodies. I’ ve been kept on studying and experimenting with new techniques of glass processing and treatment applied to projects strongly focused on perception and interaction.
Federica Sala (b. 1986 Italy, lives and works in Milan) holds an MFA in Contemporary Jewellery and Body Ornament from Alchimia in Florence (2015) tutored by the Mexican jewellery artist Jorge Manilla, and an MA in Fashion Design from the Politecnico in Milan (2011). From 2010 to 2012 she has been the assistant of the Italian artist Giorgio Vigna. From 2016 to 2018 she was the Head of the jewellery Department at IED in Milan where she currently teaches. Her work has been exhibited at the Mad Museum in New York, at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston, inside SOFA in Chicago, at ZIBA Prague Museum and at CODA Museum among the others.
With her piece “Unbearable lightness” she was nominated for the Stanislav Libensky Award in 2015.
Her body of work True Lies won the Marzee International Graduated Prize in 2016.
In 2017 her work got a special mention at the Enjoya’t Professionists Award.
Docenze | Teaching
IED Milano, Italy