Ximo Berenguer (1996)

Artist and jeweller born in Alicante and resident in Barcelona. He graduated in Fine Arts from Miguel Hernández University in Alicante, completed a Master's Degree in Artistic Research and Creation at Complutense University in Madrid, and later trained in Artistic Jewellery at the Escola Massana in Barcelona, where he found a crossroads between artistic thought and craftsmanship. His practice revolves around the creation of what he understands as narrative objects: pieces that, through jewellery techniques and resources, explore the capacity of matter to acquire symbolic value, communicate ideas, generate rituals, harbour theatricality, or illustrate stories.He conceives jewellery as an expanded field, capable of transcending 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 that we culturally associate with the sacred. With the domestication of fire, we also learned to transform metal, creating jewellery and weapons — beauty and death. This reflection is repeated in his work, both in the relationship between the history of the craft and our civilisation and in the use of primitive symbols, idealised plant 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 are, or how it can be detached from the body and still be recognised as jewellery without renouncing its symbolic significance.

At the same time, Ximo has been a member of La Cuarta Piel since 2021. This is an art, design and architecture collective where, together with 12 other colleagues, he develops projects that lie between research, production and exhibition creation.