Letícia Domingues (Germany)
LETÍCIA DOMINGUES
Designer biography:
Letícia Domingues grew up in a small village in Portugal, she moved to Lisbon to study chemical engineering and begin an academic career in electrochemistry. The beauty of the shine of cut aluminium aroused her curiosity in its aesthetic qualities. During a two-year stay in Tallahassee, Florida, USA, she took an introductory course in jewelry making at the Florida State University Art Center. With the support of the Florida Society of Goldsmiths and their studio, she began to work more intensively with metalwork. From 2006 to 2009, now in Germany, she attended and graduated from the Berufskolleg für Design, Schmuck und Gerät, Goldschmiedeschule mit Uhrmacherschule Pforzheim. Since 2014, she has been working and living as a state-certified designer (jewelry and objects) in Leipzig, where she opened her own studio in 2021.
Collection concept:
There is a symbiosis between perceived material properties and aesthetics that gives meaning to my work. The real, tangible physical surface and its visual texture evoke a sensory experience that resonates with our emotions. It raises expectations that, at times, can be misleading - or that can be deliberately subverted or made incongruous, dissonant. We feel disturbance, surprise, curiosity. The clash of materials, shapes, massiveness and lightness changes our relationship to reality or reconciles us with our personal view when it seems to be at odds with conventional thinking.
Leticia Domingues, Brooch2, Overactive Imagination, 2022, copper-steel-lacquer
Leticia Domingues, Necklace2, Overactive Imagination, 2022, copper-silver-lacquer
Leticia Domingues, Brooch2, Acanthous, 2023, wood, copper-steel-lacquer