Warrioress (Out of the Blue)
Single & Jewellery Collection • Digital • 2024
single cover photo by Anna-Lucia Rupp
“Warrioress” is the fifth work to be released within Olicía’s “Out of the Blue” cycle - two individual works of art created from an exchange of ideas and practices. It results from the collaboration with jewellery designer and goldsmith Malene Glintborg in Copenhagen, Denmark.
“Warrioress” is an epic, building song based on percussive samples from Malene’s workshop - drills, hammering noises and soldering - but also keys, synths, and shruti box that lay out a field for the voices of Fama M’Boup and Anna-Lucia Rupp.
“Warrioress” is also the title of a collection of jewellery designed by Malene Glintborg in the process: a whole series of pieces that can be worn in combination with one another or individually. Multiple rings, stud earrings, ear cuffs, a necklace trinket. In conjunction, they create the impression of an armor. In the same way the songs unfolds by adding new elements layer by layer, loop by loop into “the dance of the warrioress”.
Malene Glintborg describes her process as follows: “From the concept of sound waves came the idea of sculpting something fluent and moving yet controlled. The wax I initially work in, has the soft running character, but when cast in silver it hardens - almost like an armor or shield. The merge between body and art piece has always been a scope in my design. Olicía capture this in the lyrics. Like an armor the jewelry has to fit the anatomy of the body.”
“Jewelry can be like an armor,” Fama adds, “or it can be an amulet, that protects us from bad charms, that strengthens us. It might even unite us with our ancestors by wearing inherited pieces, that seem to have soaked up several lives already and are now accompanying you in yours.”
The resulting song as well as the pieces of jewellery display an almost archaic, ceremonial quality that is also reflected in the rising intensity of the music – a ritualistic dance with a transformative quality just like the physical, visual transformation of putting on the jewellery that, as Anna-Lucia puts it, possesses “the ability to make me a more expressive person, to release a playful yet steadfast strength. In a way both, the song and the art pieces, convey an idea of power, of the unfolding of unimagined forces.”
You can purchase the jewellery collection by Malene Glintborg and read more about this project on our label shop www.o-cetera.com
Malene Glintborg is educated as an architect but a longing for more craftsmanship and a more hands on design process brought her into jewellery design. For 12 years she has been designing and producing her own jewellery-line - Malene Glintborg jewellery. All pieces are handmade in her studio in Copenhagen / Jægersborggade. This means the production is limited and therefore mainly sold in the shop or on her website.
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