Ruudt Peters and Eva Fortuño, Enjoia’t Awards 2019

The building Disseny Hub Barcelona took the award-giving ceremony of the 25th Enjoia’t Awards, organized by A-FAD.

This year’s jury were: Joaquim Capdevila, jeweler; Judy McCaig, jeweler, Gemma Draper, jeweler; Pravu Mazumdar, philosopher; Amador Bertomeu, Klimt02 co-founder.

These are the 8 awarded pieces:

Profesional Category

Winner Enjoia’t Awards Professional 2019
Author: Ruudt Peters
Piece: Suctus “Sucana”
Jury: The judges were most impressed by the length search by the artist, for a shape that signifies suction. For the real function of abstraction. For the capacity to capture light and its glowing reflection. It’s a work that still carries an on-going question.

First Finalist Enjoia’t Awards Professional 2019
Author: Jieun Park
Piece: Naked the dreamers
Jury: The judges described this piece as appearing as if it had evolved from a dream. The neckpiece, on touching it, came alive. The proximity of the wearer completed the piece. The tactility of it is startlingly surprising being that it is made of metal.

Second Finalist Enjoia’t Awards Professional 2019
Author: Eva Mazana
Piece: Encantada de conocernos
Jury: It captures in a meticulous way an onirical and strange beauty. The jury said that the outcome appears as honest simplicity.

Student Category

Winner Enjoia’t Awards Student 2019
Author: Eva Fortuño
Piece Linja
Jury: For an optimal translation from an interior experience. The jury outlines its research, simplicity, delicate precision, following the path led by the matter but still being in control of it.

First Finalist Enjoia’t Awards Student 2019
Author: Amal Al-Ismaili
Piece: Saqal
Jury: As a jury we were taken with double recycling of material, of time-bound techniques. With the aim of maintaining a tradition. Jury members were especially impressed by the collaborative work between the artist and a group of women. They want to outline its truthfulness, research, shape and materials.

Second Finalist Enjoia’t Awards Student 2019
Author: Hansel Tai
Piece: Nude jade pierced
Jury: The jury chose this work for the transgressive gesture, for its precision full of cold-blooded purposefulness.

Winner Opinion Award Enjoia’t 2019
Author: Patricia Tamayo
Piece: Qui m’ha tocat?

Winner Enjoia’t MISUI Award 2019
Author: Hansel Tai
Piece: Nude jade pierced
Jury: the jury valued the symbolic significance of his pieces, such as the intervention upon a material with so many connotations, the jade, by putting elements to distort it. The object materiality and the excellent execution confirm its message. His work refers to the future, not the one that is coming to us, but the one that is hurling over all of us”.

A-FAD thanks the institutions collaboration: Ajuntament de Barcelona and Consorci de Comerç, Artesania i Moda de la Generalitat de Catalunya (CCAM). Also MISUI, Fira Joya, JORGC and Casa Piera as patrons; and Klimt02, 1+1=3, Escola d’Art La Industrial, Museu-Molí Paperer de Capellades and Campari as collaborators.