Trained in ceramics, glass, and metal at the University of Art and Design in Romania, Raluca Buzura has focused on contemporary jewelry design since 2009. She is interested in challenging the traditional understanding of jewelry, illuminating it not just as adornment, whose value depends on the materials used, but as art in its own right. Buzura’s work is a translation in porcelain of her personal experiences, the traces of which she seeks to obliterate by blurring the boundary between real and abstract, creating a swirl of textures and shapes from which arise flashes of gold. She sees the result of these experiences as a legacy, a proof of her existence that reflects on society, making it, if not better, at least more beautiful.
