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EXHIBITION "CONTAS" BY ELZA LIMA
Design Désir opens the exhibition of necklaces with African inspiration.
It was at a Nigerian street fair that Elza's sensitivity and vision were dazzled by the diversity of African beads.
Elza is from Rio and started making necklaces in Brasília with a group of friends when she was 12 years old. She renewed her love for colorful beads decades later thanks to her wanderings through the markets of Abuja, Nigeria, where she lived for five years.
Elza Lima
Daughter and wife of diplomats, she lived in Lisbon, Caracas, Washington, Madrid and Rome with her father and, later, in Buenos Aires, Caracas, Lisbon, Ottawa, Rome, La Paz, Chicago, Abuja and San Salvador with her husband and children. She currently resides in Brasília.
Elza studied Journalism/Social Communication at PUC in Rio de Janeiro and studied Art History at Sotheby's in London. In Chicago, where she lived for four years, she worked as a volunteer at the Art Institute of Chicago and as a guide at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, the house where the famous architect was born and lived.
Her necklaces are her hobby and come from the archive of images that she created in her mind while traveling the world. Unique pieces; none of which are the same. Elza mixes beads, seeds, and objects that she found during her travels; especially in Africa, Central America and Brazil.
It is part of her creative process to transform things that have no relation to jewelry and accessories into necklaces. In one of the pieces in this collection, she used Moroccan buttons, painstakingly negotiated in the middle of a bustling street in Marrakech with the lady who had just made them. Indeed, Elza’s creativity thrives in markets and antique fairs. A tour in a street market in Porto Alegre allowed her to work on necklaces made from traditional gaucho door locks.
Elza Lima has also written two tourist guides, published by TopBooks, "Dicas de Roma" and "Vá a Lisboa e Me Leva com Você".