REVERSED GRAVITY BROOCH #1
The opening piece of a trilogy created by Raluca Buzura, part of Form & Flight, Ce Fain!'s year-long curatorial capsule, in which contemporary Romanian designers answer a single brief set by two of the country's most formally precise figures: Constantin Brâncuși, whose 150th year falls in 2026, and Nadia Comăneci, fifty years on from the perfect 10 the Montreal scoreboard was never built to display. Where Brâncuși distilled form to its essence, Comăneci resolved movement until the seam between effort and ease disappeared. Reversed Gravity #1 stands at that hinge, the point where stillness and ascent meet.
The three works explore weightlessness as a state of suspension between gravity and flight, capturing a moment in which movement seems to exist beyond the limits of the physical body. Their fluid, organic forms evoke the sensation of floating, of being momentarily released from the pull of gravity while remaining suspended in space. The reflective gold surfaces amplify this sense of lightness, shifting with the light and creating an interplay between solidity and immateriality. Through a balance of opposing forces, each piece suggests a delicate equilibrium between falling and rising, stillness and motion. Together, they explore the possibility of a body liberated from weight, existing in the fleeting space between the grounded and the infinite.
It is hand modelled in porcelain and veiled in a transparent glaze, then fired at 1250 °C, the temperature at which body and glaze fuse into a single vitrified whole. A second firing at 800 °C binds the colloidal gold to its surface, laying a thin, luminous line where light gathers. A stainless steel closure holds it: cool, exact, and quietly engineered, material honesty in the service of an object meant to be worn.
Brooch, porcelain with transparent glaze and colloidal gold, stainless steel. L 7.5 × W 7.5 × H 5 cm. First of three.
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