Eixo de Luz is an artistic collaboration between two artists: a painter and a jeweler. The creators met while studying Painting – Maria – and Sculpture – Inês – at the Faculty of Fine Arts. While chatting in the college corridors, they realized that if they joined forces they could create something new: chair-shaped earrings.
And so, in 2021, Jogo das Cadeiras was born, the duo’s first collection. This collection was inspired by abandoned chairs and the meaning they carried with them: the lack of someone, a place of reflection and, during the pandemic, a place of solitude.
The first collection was a success and now they are launching a new collection: Sidelines Collection. A collection about being outside, hanging out and playing with friends.
INÊS EIXO
b. 2001, Lisbon
Inês is a Portuguese visual artist whose work explores the concept of the “in-between” — a space of dialogue between opposites, where time, memory, and matter intersect. Through sculpture and jewelry, she investigates the delicate tension between what is and what is becoming, between the conscious and the unconscious, the self and the other.
She studied Jewelry at the António Arroio Artistic School and completed her degree in Sculpture at FBAUL. In 2024, she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna through the Erasmus program.
She currently lives and works in Lisbon, developing her sculptural and jewelry practice with a focus on materiality and the poetics of transformation.
Check her individual project here or on instagram @eixo_ines
MARIA LUZ
b. 1999, Lisbon
Maria is a Portuguese visual artist who investigates loneliness in everyday life in the city. Her work portrays the search for beauty in abandoned objects and places, using light and color as doorways to nostalgic landscapes. She works mainly in oil painting and analog photography.
She finished her degree in Painting at FBAUL (2021) and won the Young Art Prize by Millennium BCP and Carpe Diem in 2022. In partnership with the duo Garcé & Dimofski, she has participated in several international projects, including the Cedofeita Townhouse project for Architectural Digest and RESONANCE for Paris Art Basel.
She currently lives and works in Lisbon, combining the visual arts with his jewelry brand.
Check her paintings here or on instagram @mcorreialuz