LUBA SOKOLOVKSY

Cluster Contemporary Jewellery
”The Living Trace”

 

Luba Sokolovsky is an artist whose path weaves through medicine, IT, visual arts, literature, poetry, and contemporary jewellery – her way of engaging with the world. Her work tells stories through form and material, each piece offering a space for thoughts, emotions, and reflection.
Luba works with copper, silver, leather, natural stones, and experimental elements, always choosing the materials and techniques that best convey her inner ideas.

For this exhibition, she presents a collection inspired by discoveries, sensations, and visions from the shores of the Mediterranean – a place where civilizations were born and fell. The collection draws from the peculiar shapes of stones, reminiscent of sandcastle ruins once built with love and hope, now dissolved by relentless time, leaving behind traces and memories of what once was.
This is her second participation in Cluster Contemporary Jewellery. Recently, her work has been shown at the Florence Biennale and Romanian Jewelry Week.

 
 

Within these stones, one can hear the sound of the tide and the wind from the sea, the taste of saltwater, the heat of the midday sun, and the cool breath of the midnight moon.
Like the ruins of sandcastles, these stones speak of dreams and expectations — of things built with hope and washed away by the tide.
They are scattered along the shores of the Mediterranean – our sea, Mare Nostrum, the great sea upon whose edges civilizations were born and broken.
Here, philosophy echoed and blood was spilled; empires rose and crumbled into dust. Here, hope lived alongside loss, and beauty stood face to face with the inevitability of forgetting.

Even the waves did not dare to destroy them, did not swallow them into the deep — they merely left their trace: a few voids, and elegant curves.
Among pale beige and bluish stones, where sand whispers and seawater glimmers, terracotta suddenly flares – the dense color of earth, caught in fragments of ancient pottery.Whatever these once were – vessels for water, wine, offerings, or simple flower pots – they still carry the human touch: everyday life, intimacy, presence.
Inspired by these findings, sensations, and visions along the shores of the Mediterranean, the collection Mysteria Between the Lands was born.
A collection about what was and what still remains – about the mystical and the mundane, the essential carried through time… The living trace