Ana Luisa Braun Rodrigues

Each piece stages a dialogue between ancestral technique and contemporary form, combining slow handwork with targeted digital interventions. Working directly with the Mumbuca community in Jalapão and other artisans, I incorporate capim dourado (a legally protected Cerrado material harvested only by registered artisans) and large camurupim fish scales (a pre-consumer byproduct) into contemporary jewellery.

Precision-cut crystal loupes sit like water droplets over organic surfaces, magnifying micro-details and amplifying natural luminosity. The collection challenges dominant notions of preciousness and recentres craft as a core expression of luxury, grounded in human time, collective knowledge, and ethical collaboration.

Its formal language draws from Brasília’s vast negative spaces and Niemeyer’s curves, translating monumental restraint into intimate, bodily scale for an audience attuned to innovation, unfamiliar materials, and the preservation of cultural ecologies.