Category Archives: Non classé

By cloelea, Jul 11 2017 This jewellery project by Ukrainian artist Viktorija Domarkaite, which resulted in a neckpiece, a performance and a video, illustrates my last posts on the concept of jewellery as being not only intricately linked with the wearer, but also part of his/her existence. The performance involved giving “a possibility for theContinue reading ““Too fragile when you are close” Viktorija Domarkaite”

By cloelea, Jul 11 2017  “Dear Jewellery,” People continue “… to associate you with the vanity of a wearer expressed within the context of a social event… there seems to be a strange aura of vulgarity around you, as if you were something like an anthropological undergarment to be ashamed of or in any caseContinue reading ““Placed between the body and the world…” Pravu Mazumdar”

By cloelea, Jul 9 2017  Relaxing time on the water, floating on a canal boat, on a British summer day… It’s lovely to experience life on a floating shop! These traditional and colourful boats aligned along the canal are very charming and there is a feeling of serenity and timelessness when you are floating. ThankContinue reading “Floating along…”

By cloelea, Jun 27 2017 “Dialogue without questions or answers that enables us to reconnect with our inner waves”. Some more thoughts on Art, as seen through the eyes of Nicolas Roméas (founder of the journal: Cassandre/Horschamp, and written in the online journal: L’Insatiable), in : L’Art comme école, Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2017. « Comme Platon disait du symboleContinue reading “« Dialogue sans question ni réponse qui permet de renouer avec nos vagues intérieures » Nicolas Roméas”

By cloelea, Jun 22 2017 “Glass is a liquid that forgot what it was” Kim KototamaLune. “Synapsis”, an exhibition presented at the galerie d’art Da-End in Paris, displays the works of two artists: the Vietnamese glass sculptor Kim KototamaLune and the Japanese photographer Satoki Nagata. “In 1897, the British physiologist Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1852-1952)Continue reading “« Le verre est un liquide qui a oublié qui il était » Kim KototamaLune”

By cloelea, Jun 4 2017 “Where does the parallel world exist? … Is it perhaps possible to see such a world in a dream? Or does it only exist in one’s heart? The world we see is only a part of the entire reality which is composed of many worlds existing simultaneously, side by side.Continue reading ““Where does the parallel world exist?” Mari Ishikawa”

By cloelea, Jun 1 2017 Insurrection by Ria Lins. This is a video showcasing the work of the Belgian jeweller Ria Lins: a necklace called “Rock Me Baby”. It is a beautiful and poetic way of displaying jewellery, in particular in the way it enables the object to come to life by creating movements andContinue reading ““The language of jewellery” Ria Lins”

By cloelea, May 25 2017 The subject of the last post about the intimate relationship between the body and jewellery has made me interested in analysing the works of two artists who are not jewellers but who I like very much: the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt and the Pakistani contemporary artist: Naiza Khan. These twoContinue reading ““The Skin She Wears” Naiza Khan”

By cloelea, May 17 2017  “In November 1975 I (Peter Skubic) underwent an operation and had a small steel implant inserted under the skin of my lower arm, called Schmuck unter der Haut (Jewellery under my skin), which, after seven years, was surgically removed from my arm and I kept and secured it in theContinue reading ““Jewellery is an intimate art” Toni Greenbaum”

By cloelea, May 12 2017 In his work, the Serbian conceptual artist Peter Skubic talks about whether it is essential for an item to be defined as jewellery, to be wearable and comfortable to wear and even to be visible or to exist in the long term. For some jewellery artists, wearability is not importantContinue reading ““The myth of wearing jewellery is not real” Peter Skubic”