The Living Trace Award Celebration Event
Founder & CEO of Paloma Sanchez, The Art of Jewelry, GIA gemologist and jewelry artist Ms. Paloma Sanchez has been honored with “The Living Trace” Award (the equivalent of the “Lorenzo il Magnifico” President’s Award) by the Florence Biennale (Italy) and Cluster Contemporary Jewellery Fair (London, UK) at the XV Florence Biennale, becoming the first artist in the history of the Florence Biennale to receive this distinction.
To celebrate this remarkable achievement, the brand hosted an exclusive award celebration on November 16th, 2025 at its Beijing Studio - THE PENTHOUSE. This event is dedicated to our esteemed collectors who recognize art, celebrate meaning, and have accompanied the brand through the artistic journey. Because each artwork’s journey is completed only when it meets its collector.
During the celebration, the studio transformed into an intimate art gallery, creating a profound dialogue between art and the individual. The art jewelry stood like sculptures, and collectors moved through, engaging with the works in a deeply personal, up-close encounter.
The award-winning creations, Grotta Azzurra and Tears of Antarctica, explore the eternal dialogue between light and darkness, creation and disappearance.
Grotta Azzurra embodies the depth of darkness—the indigo before dawn, the inner sea where light first dares to appear. Its tanzanite heart and diamond stalactites glimmer faintly in the void, evoking that suspended moment when illumination is born from stillness.
Opposite, Tears of Antarctica carries the promise of dawn. Its melted gold edges and crystalline surfaces capture the fragile power of hope, the instant when frozen matter yields to light. Within the cave, its radiance unfolds like a breath of renewal — the slow awakening that restores movement to what was once silent and inert.
Together, they transform the cave into a living metaphor: a space where darkness protects and light redeems, where the Earth’s raw substance becomes a vessel of consciousness and beauty. The installation invites viewers to step inside the rhythm of creation itself — to witness the sublime not as contrast, but as union, where every beam of light carries the memory of the shadow from which it arose.
In this moment, light and shadow, art and life converged. Paloma Sanchez, The Art of Jewelry, invites you to witness the beauty and creativity of art, allowing each “Living Trace” to be seen, cherished, and preserved.