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Until Death Do Us Part Juan Harnie / Belgium
Necklace “EXT26”, 2020
Necklace “EXT27”, 2020
Necklace “EXT28”, 2020
Textile, latex, rope, sewing thread.
Textile, latex, rope, sewing thread.
Textile, latex, rope, sewing thread.
Hand and machine stitching, adding latex layer by layer for aesthetical purposes and to prevent unraveling.
Hand and machine stitching, adding latex layer by layer for aesthetical purposes and to prevent unraveling.
Hand and machine stitching, adding latex layer by layer for aesthetical purposes and to prevent unraveling.
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My hands are my most precious body parts. I like the way they look and because I’m an artist I need them to create my art. I have a big fear of damaging my hands or losing their function. In these pieces I try to desperately repair or at least patch-up these broken hands and put lost parts together to give them a new purpose, an attempt to fight my own fear of damaging my hands. This, as a way of coping with this fear and trying to use it to my advantage. This way I try to work with this fear, which I will carry with me for the rest of my life. The pieces also represent the decay I won’t be able to stop. One day my body and hands will completely disappear. At that point these pieces become a way to remember me, and my hands…