Ximo Berenguer (Alicante, 1996)

Artist and jeweller born in Alicante and based in Barcelona. He graduated in Fine Arts from the Miguel Hernández University of Alicante, completed a Master’s degree in Artistic Research and Creation at the Complutense University of Madrid, and later trained in Artistic Jewellery at Escola Massana in Barcelona, where he found a point of convergence between artistic thought and craft.

His practice revolves around the creation of what he understands as narrative objects: pieces that, through the techniques and resources of jewellery, explore matter’s capacity to acquire symbolic value, communicate ideas, generate rituals, hold theatricality, or illustrate stories. He conceives jewellery as an expanded field, capable of moving beyond mere ornamentation to become a medium for thought and cultural speculation.

He uses noble materials, such as gold, silver, and other metals, to explore their persistence, resistance, and ability to reflect light; qualities culturally associated with the sacred. With the domestication of fire, we also learned to transform metal, creating jewels and weapons — beauty and death. This reflection recurs throughout his work, both in the relationship between the history of the craft and our civilization, and in the use of primitive symbols, idealized vegetal motifs, and ornamental resources derived from the material process itself. His work explores the traditional limits of the discipline: what its definition depends on, what its possible supports might be, and how it can detach itself from the body while still being recognized as jewellery, without relinquishing its symbolic charge.