“I Don’t Shine, I Have Something to Say” exhibit + sale Oct 5 – 19, 2025 with Artist Event Oct 12, 2025. Get a head start on Venice Design Week !!
The wearable art in the third edition of this international contemporary jewellery exhibition was selected by juror Eleanora Varotto, Art Curator Arte Design Venezia and head curator @cluster__contemporaryjewellery. Eleonora Varotto is an art historian and independent curator specializing in contemporary art and jewelry design and the force behind Hooroon Curatorial Studio. She has trained between Padua, Venice, Madrid and Milan.
Visit the exhibition at one of Venice’s historic cultural institutions Fondazione Querini Stampalia.
Santa Maria Formosa Castello 5252, 30122 — Venezia Open map
Fondazione Querini Stampalia Collections and Exhibitions are open Tuesday to Sunday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
“I Don’t Shine, I Have Something to Say” exhibit + sale features wearable art making statements.
Artists have let their pieces scream, inspire and transform.
In-Person Exhibition Dates & Details
| October 5 – 19 | Exhibit at Fondazione Querini Stampali, Venice ,Italy |
| October 11 | Artist event / reception |
| October 19 | Exhibition closees |
Venice Jewelry Week is an annual week-long celebration that invites a global audience to experience the world of design in Venice, Italy.
Venice Jewelry Week is part of Venice Design Week
“Venice Design Week is the festival dedicated to design held in the city of Venice, every October since 2010. For a week, the lagoon of Venice comes alive with exhibitions, conferences and meetings, competitions, workshops and guided tours that take place in a unique setting, full of history and contemporaneity, in a continuous exchange between cultures meeting and mutual comparison. VDW is a widespread event, in symbiosis with the city that hosts it, and that winds its way through calli and campielli, private galleries and museums, homes and artists’ studios, stores and workshops.
Venice Design Week is also an unmissable opportunity for connection and dialogue between established and emerging designers, international companies, artisans, architects and a curious and passionate public.”
Bracelet Dimensions
14.8 x 14 x 1.6 cm
5.8 x 5.5 x 0.6 in
inner oval: 2.5 x 3″
Materials: Low tarnish sterling silver, Stainless Steel. Two of the bracelets have pure titanium layers.
Reversible
Hand drawn, CAD modified, laser cut, hand finished
Each bracelet began as an enlarged hand drawing of a microscopic creature. Mentally deconstructing the zooplankton during the hand drawing phase, I morphed the creatures into flat layers which would rebuild as a 3D form. I used CAD software to ingest the layer drawings and further modify the designs of each layer. Individual vector files were sent to a laser cutter. Each rough-cut low tarnish sterling silver layer was hand textured and finished in the hundreds of uniquely shaped cut outs.