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Until Death Do Us Part Anna Talbot / Norway
Necklace “So Lonesome I Could Cry”, 2021 Upcycled cookie tin, aluminium, spray paint, brass, silk ribbon, silver
All hand pierced and hand painted
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A large scale necklace made during lockdown - when everything was so quiet and things felt very lonely - walking the streets it felt like everyone had left, abandoned ship and maybe the wild animals had taken over, rewilding the city.
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Until Death Do Us Part Annelieke Landré / Netherlands
Face mask “Fake ID”, 2020 Stainless steel, 925 silver oxidised hand fabricated
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In a culture where manipulated images are the norm, our selfimage is under great pressure. Perfect lives parade by on our screens, but our own existence doesn't seem so perfect at all. Personal identity had its basis in the attachment to the parents, attachment to place and age. Today this has become more of a product of virtual and digital communication. If identity is constructed more by form and less by content and relationships there is a danger that we will become even more uprooted more removed from the body. Parallel to our real lives are now also the lives we lead online: on facebook, instagram. Human identity is largely formed by playing roles, adopting certain attitudes in social situations. For an authentic identity development situations are needed in which you do not have to play a role and can simply be yourself. In the digital age we are in a constant battle with the digital other and we get further and further away from ourselves until we have forgotten who we were.
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Until Death Do Us Part Erle Nemvalts / Estonia
Crown “Heaven sent”,/ 2020 iron casting
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Death is the only thing that is truly ours. Awareness of our mortality defines us humans. Everything else can be taken away from us, but not that. Being aware of death gives life a meaning. But what to do if you have accidentally felt that "truly yours" but you are still destined to live on? Does such an experience inspire ascension to new heights, or does it hinder further life and overshadow events and experiences that "do not belong to us"?
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Until Death Do Us Part Silke Fleischer / Belgium
Double ear pin “In Between Me And Her”
Clasp “Octopus”
Oxidised silver 925
Oxidised silver 925
Framed self image, wood
Framed image, wood PRICE ON REQUEST
Silke Fleischer / Belgium In between me and her, which simultaneously reads as a conceptual title – it describes the desire of a transformation in time, as like a snapshot. By following the event of a freezing moment the work exists as a sculpture, body, space, and experience as a process of being rather than of wearing. The work can be read as a desire of holding on to the presence. Immobilized by an attached string and by such conditions prevented from moving freely. Motion implies a change in the position over time. If the position of a body does not change with respect to a given frame of reference, the body is said to be at rest, or to have a constant position. Octopuses have more than half of their neurons situated not in the brain, but in their tentacles. It is believed they possess synaesthetic abilities, merging thinking with touch and movement and therefore associated with the human subconscious. In situations of necessity and survival, it can devour its prey.