Oscure Sacrifices

By creating jewellery Jorge Manilla investigates his environment - religion, emotions, relationships and the meaning of life.

Over the last years the artist has rediscovered his love for the black colour. To the artist black relates to something hidden, the secretive and the unknown, and as a result it creates an air of mystery. It keeps things bottled up inside, hidden from the world. His dark forms and shapes create a barrier between the meanings of the objects and the outside world. Black implies self-control and discipline, independence and a strong will. It gives an impression of authority and power. For Manilla black is the end but the end implies a new beginning.

Manilla has a professional background as a boxer and butcher. He observes violence and cruelty pragmatic and objective and his jewellery often express a brutal rawness – beautiful punches that hit the viewer in solar plexus.

Four Gallery, Gottenburg