XV Florence Biennale 2025 Italy
Paloma Sanchez, The Art of Jewelry
Ms. Paloma Sanchez, founder and CEO of Paloma Sanchez, The Art of Jewelry, has been invited to participate in the XV Florence Biennale in 2025 as an exhibiting artist, where she has presented two of her exceptional jewelry artworks.
Light and Darkness - The Project
The two creations — Grotta Azzurra and Tears of Antarctica — reflect the philosophy of Paloma Sanchez, The Art of Jewelry — a house where gemology meets effortless elegance, and where each stone is treated not as an ornament but as a bearer of meaning.
Known for her one-of-a-kind creations, Sanchez bridges nature and artistry, transforming rare, one-of-a-kind, hand-selected stones of museum quality into reflections of human experience. A gemologist, artist, and explorer, she searches the world for specimens of exceptional purity and character, guided by respect for nature and the courage to create beyond convention.
Her designs, rooted in ethical sourcing and conceptual craftsmanship, merge scientific precision with poetic sensibility, giving form to the invisible forces that shape both matter and emotion. The brand’s dedication to sustainability extends to its business practices, and it is committed to supporting women in mining regions through various projects carried out in Africa.
Within the stillness of a cave, where silence gathers and vision surrenders to shadow, two beams of light emerge. From the depths, Grotta Azzurra and Tears of Antarctica reveal themselves—two meditations on the eternal dialogue between darkness and light.
The cave is not absence but origin. In its quiet vastness, 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.
Grotta Azzurra
Grotta Azzurra is born of contrast: the cool stillness of a hidden sea cave and the sudden shimmer of light that pierces its shadowed depths. A singular 150-carat Tanzanite, untouched by the cutter's hand, becomes a sacred relic. Encasing the stone, cascading formations of white diamonds and sculpted 18kt white gold evoke crystalline stalactites, shimmering like captured rays of light breaking through cavernous obscurity. Here, darkness is not absence but presence—framing and amplifying the brilliance of illumination.
Art jewelry (Necklace). 150ct Tanzanite crystal from Tanzania, pear shape and round brilliant cut diamonds (12.596ct in total), 18kt white gold.
Tears of Antarctica
Born at the fracture lines of the Earth, the Tears of Antarctica reflects the fragile balance between creation and decay. The Faden Quartz, with its thread-like vein formed through rupture, resembles stalactites and stalagmites reaching for each other—a silent metaphor for a world on the edge of connection and collapse.
Molten gold flows across the translucent crystal like sunlight, mourning the melting heart of the poles. Between light and darkness, endurance and erosion, the piece captures a moment suspended between creation and disappearance—a whisper of Earth’s resilience, and its fragility.
Art jewelry (Necklace/Earring/Ring). Faden quartz from Pakistan, 18kt yellow gold.