I generally work with the idea of a memory, or the memory of an idea. It is in the way it happens that I find inspiration from. For me this recollection happens within the contradiction of filling an absence that can’t be filled any more. With my work I try keeping track of things that can no longer be kept, but in this way I can hold on to them.
My pieces are mainly metal based, but I integrate elements such as : etched text, transfered or printed images, textiles and natural fiber; as they are these elements, that by relating to them I am drawn back to that instant that I can recall and were everything in my work starts from. Jewelry pieces complete themselves when they are held in the body. Each piece by relating to the body, brings memories to the present.
I don’t see memory as an accurate recollection of events; rather a selective process of preserving. But the things that touch us, which mark our lives are well kept in our memories and help us relate to the present and looking into the future. 


"We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten" 

Cesare Pavese

Raquel Bessudo, 1977, Mexico D.F, Mexico.


Education:
1996-1997 BTEC, Foundation Course in Art and Design, Bournemouth and Pool College of Art and Design, Bournemouth, UK 
1997-2000 BA (HONS) Fine Arts Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design London, UK 
2000 Lithography, INBA School of art, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato Mexico | tin work , INBA School of art, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato Mexico | Loom Weaving INBA School of art, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato Mexico.
2000-2001 Sculpture curse, (wood carving and bronze casting,) Allende Institute, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato . Mexico | Jewlery Workshop with Billy King, Sterling Quest, San Miguel de Allende, Gunajuato Mexico 
2002-2003 Postgrado Arquitectura, Arte y Espacios Efímeros, UPC, Barcelona 
2001, 2003-2010 Jewlery workshop Lorena Lazard, Edo. de México 
2010 Enamel Workshop , with Marjorie Simon 

Awards:
2007 Recognition for best artistic concept, for the pice: “From Within” (2005), Liberarte, group exhibition, Gallery “ Torre del Reloj” Mexico D.F.
 
Exhibitions:
2009 Intrinsic connection, Gallery “Medellín 174” 

Group exhibitions:
2005 “Contemporary Jewelry and functional Art School Lorena Lazard , Cultural Centre México-Israel, México D.F. 
2007 Liberarte, group exhibition, Gallery “ Torre del Reloj”, Mexico D.F. 
2009 Conexion Intrínseca, two artist show, Gallery “Medellín 174” 
2010 Group exhibition, recycling with Art, Gallery Pedro Gerson, Mexico City, Mexico | Group exhibition, “mezuzot “ Gallery Pedro Gerson, Mexico City, Mexico 
2011 “Botanica” ( botanic) , Mexican contemporary Jewelry, group exhibition

Work experience:
2010 Graphic concept and design for the exhibition “Conexion Intrinseca” Gallery “Medellin 174”, Mexico City, Mexico, 
2008 Espejos (Mirrors), murals workshop, given by Raquel Bessudo and Gitte Bog, to high school students, , CDI, Mexico City, Mexico
2006 Co-designer and conceptual developer of UUIKA, graphic concept and brand for stationary products, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 Graphic concept and design for the exhibition “Contemporary Jewelry and functional Art “ School Lorena Lazard ,Centro cultural mexico-israel, Mexico City, Mexico| co designer of the museography for the exhibition “Contemporary Jewelry and functional Art “ School Lorena Lazard with Zinna Rudman and Lorena Lazard
2004 Free lance projects, for POP, stands, furniture, interior and industrial design. 
2002 Design and museography for the exhibit Premios Medalla ADI 2002, Foment de Les Artes Decoratives, FAD, Barcelona, Spain

2003 Maleta FAD 2003 | Constelación FAD