Jewellery, domesticity and memory come together in ‘Casa Souto’, Carla Souto’s new travelling exhibition where a handmade miniature house becomes the setting for intimate stories and sculptural jewellery.
Some objects seem to hold entire lives inside them. A shell forgotten in a drawer, marks left on a wall, inherited jewellery or the childlike drawing of a house that never disappears from memory. From that emotional landscape emerges Casa Souto, the new project by Spanish artist and jewellery designer Carla Souto, a travelling exhibition where jewellery leaves the display case behind and settles inside a miniature house entirely conceived and built by the artist herself.
Drawing inspiration from the domestic atmospheres of Nancy Meyers, seventies Italian interiors and the historical Poppenhuis of Petronella Oortman, the project transforms every room into a material narrative. Kitchens, libraries and dressing tables become intimate stages where jewellery inhabits everyday scenes suspended somewhere between reality and imagination.
Miniature scale functions here as something far beyond decoration. Souto uses it to explore memory, perception and emotional attachment. Fingerprints left visible on silver, slightly eroded finishes and moulds repurposed as decorative objects reveal an interest in time, craftsmanship and the physical traces of making. Pieces including the Laura and Nymphaea earrings, Luna and Volver rings, and sculptural designs such as the Art Déco belt become fragments of a larger emotional landscape.
The project continues an investigation already present in previous works such as ‘Love Can Take Many Forms’ and the brand’s collaboration with the Museo Casa de Muñecas de Monforte de Lemos. This time, the idea reaches its most ambitious form through an installation that has already been presented in A Coruña and will arrive in Madrid on May 22 and 23 at Espacio Dinamo Collective.
Images by Lucía Castro
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