This technique combines haute couture embroidery with a three-dimensional approach, creating volumes and spaces bead by bead. It is a soft, repetitive process where the material whispers and the hand moves with intention. In contrast, metal brings hardness and resistance—raw and dirty—but with its own rhythm. The tension between both materials generates a dialogue between fragility and strength, craft and structure

Spanish is my mother language. In Spanish we say tongue and language using the same word. On one hand, LENGUA (tongue) refers to the muscular organ found inside the mouth that allows us to taste, swallow food and produce sound. On the other hand, LENGUA (language) is the ability of human beings to express themselves and communicate with others through articulated sound or other symbolic systems.

I made this series of brooches, creating volume and spaces. These works speak about time, coming and going in my own obsessively embroidered language, with pauses and gaps in my speech, with movements that repeat themselves and accumulate. They anticipate each other, and then stop without any causality. In the form of a tongue I place my work with a clasp system that keeps the piece close to the chest where the voice vibrates. I wish, with these wearable objects, i can create my own metonymic symbol where I can wrap my feelings, and then detach them from myself so they can follow their own path.

Name of the teacher: Jimena Rios

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2000).

Lara Solia Barenboim was born in Argentina and raised between Argentina and Brazil. She studied jewelry at Taller Eloi (Buenos Aires, Argentina) she was an exchange student at Cranbrook Academy of Arts (Detroit, United States). She attended seminars with Lori Talcott, Alberte Tranberg, Rodrigo Acosta Arias, Manon Van Kouswijk and Iris Eichenberg. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires collaborating with different fashion brands as an embroiderer and making her own work. Her graduation work was shown at Galerie MARZEE (Netherlands) and her work has been exhibited at Galerie Alice Floriano (Brazil), Tincal Lab (Portugal) and in the bienal Melting Point in 2023 (Spain), New York City Jewlery Week (United States), BKV prize (Germany).

EDUCATION

2022

Residency at Cranbrook Academy Of Arts with head department Iris Eichenberg.

2020 - now

Jewellery School at Taller Eloi Jimena Rios.

2019

National University of fine arts (UNA). Buenos Aires, Argentina.

GROUP EXHIBITION

2025

BKV Prize for Young Arts and Crafts. Munich, Germany.

‘Lavori in Corso’, Carla Cardarelli. Bologna, Italy.

2024

Lisbon Jewelry Week ‘Madrugada’, Museum Of Decorative Arts. Lisbon, Portugal.

‘Instaladas’ double solo exhibition with Yihan Yuan, Taller Eloi. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Itinerant Exhibition ‘Rings | Anillos’ NYCJW 2024, New York, United States and Taller Eloi. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

‘Cucharas | Spoons’, Museum Complejo Explora Salta. Salta, Argentina.

2023

‘Constelaciones’ Melting Point, Talleres Fabrika 12. Valencia, Spain.

‘Candles and Sticks’, Taller Eloi. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

‘Set the table’, Taller Eloi. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2022

‘Literature and jewelry’ Tincallab challenge. Lisbon, Portugal.

‘FIO III’, Gallery Alice Floriano. Porto Alegre, Brazil.

2021

‘International graduation exhibition’ Galerie Marzee. Nijmegen, Netherlands.

2020

‘Cross side crystal’ Haimney Gallery. Barcelona, Spain.

2018

‘Woman for woman’ Centro Cultural Recoleta. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2017

‘Clave 13/17, Visual libre’ Centro Cultural Recoleta. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

SOLO EXHIBITION

2024

‘Tongue’ at Tincal Lab, Oporto, Portugal.

AWARDS

2025

Second prize in BKV Prize for Young Arts and Crafts 2025. Munich, Germany.

2023

Winner in Tincal Lab Challenge “Jewelry and Literature”. Oporto, Portugal.

2022

Honorable Mention in FIO competition, Gallery Alice Floriano. Porto Alegre, Brazil.