Artigo:

The proposal of an autobiographical writing can contribute to the construction of the relevance of jewelry artists’ body of work. Narrative, memory, and identity are aspects that start to be explored in the making-thinking inherent to the jewelry practice. The slow time of writing promotes reflection. Documenting the work process can be an important tool for development. The register of artistic activities helps in the construction of memory. Bringing to oneself the responsibility for the authorship of texts allows greater control over one’s own identity and the placement in the communicational circuit of jewelry. Based on the concepts of self writing in Michel Foucault and archiving in Jacques Derrida, as well as the exemplary case of Reny Golcman’s artist archive, an attempt will be made to understand the importance of these activities for the production and presentation of jewelry artists in Latin American contemporaneity.