Forget Me Not - (Barcelona 2023)

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Forget Me Not is the last work created by Teresa Estapé. Renowned for her profession as a goldsmith, the artist explores the lack of space that contemporary Western society grants to bereaved people. The result of historical research on mourning jewelery from the 18th and 19th centuries in England, the project is made up of a set of jet mourning jewellery, a video and a photographic diptych. Estapé simultaneously recovers and breaks with Victorian traditions and puts them in conversation with current artistic territory, exploring the "exit protocols" associated with death and the notions of blandness from Chinese aesthetics. The work points to the social need to mourn and invites the public to stop, look and be present.