Galeria Nuno Centeno is glad to present A/VOID, by Olga Noronha, at The Cave Project Space.

Through the shadows, space is re-signified within the plenitude of the five Japanese elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether.

– Olga Noronha, 2023

Olga Noronha was born in Porto in 1990. She lives in Portugal and works between London, Portugal and Italy.
With a PhD and a Masters in Design Research from Goldsmiths College, Olga Noronha initially graduated in Jewellery Design from Central Saint Martins. At the moment, as a guest teacher and lecturer, she is linked to various national and international academic institutions, such as the Royal College of Arts (UK), Central Saint Martins (UK), Winthrop University (USA), UCA Rochester (UK), POLIMI (IT), ESAD (PT), among others.
She is attentive to the creation of works that relate the robustness of the mechanical and technological to the elegance and delicacy of the material per se. Olga Noronha argues that each work should convey something more than a simple idea of an accessory/adornment. Her work is mostly contextualised as a sculptural piece that reconfigures and re-imagines the human body as an autonomous and concrete ‘object’ that lives beyond the (implicit) presence of the body.
Olga Noronha is currently the Principal Investigator and Coordinator of the project Study of filigree patterns for application in biomedical jewellery and Design of filigree bone-fracture fixation plate, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). [www.biofiligree.com]
Her work fluctuates between different areas, characterised by contrasts and dichotomies, which aim to combine scientific pragmatism and the conceptualism of art, particularly in the Medically Prescribed Jewellery® project she has been developing since 2011.
With multiple national and international exhibitions and publications in the areas of Art, Design and Science, her work is part of several public and private collections, including MuDe – Museum of Design and Fashion, Museo Del Gioiello Vicenza (IT), Central Saint Martins Art and Design Collection (UK) and Fundação de Serralves (PT).