Sara Barbanti

Sara Barbanti was born in Modena in 1991.

She obtained a Bachelor's degree in Interior Design from the Politecnico di Milano in 2013, and subsequently continued her education at Le Arti Orafe Jewellery School & Academy in Florence, where she studied until 2016.

In the same year, she returned to Modena and began a formative experience in the goldsmithing workshop of Gigi Mariani. She later established her own studio in the countryside near Modena, where she currently lives and works, carrying forward her artistic research and conducting workshops.

Her work has been exhibited in numerous art and contemporary jewelry exhibitions internationally.

The research is based on the relation between different materials and on how they can converse and enhance each other. The contrast is essential, organic shapes combined with simple figures, poor materials with precious ones, light with darkness. Creating a suggestion in the observer without using figurative elements provokes a wider range of possibilities and reflections. For this reason the creation process becomes extremely important, the spontaneity of the form and the composition are fundamental, the imperfection becomes strength and the fragment infuses a feeling of completeness.

The jewel is born from the transformation of wood into coal, the metamorphosis of the material imparts value to the object, telling a story of unleashed shape shifting potential.