I create flamboyant, sculptural and wearable pieces that combine ambivalent aspects of appeal and repulsion. 
Jewellery that attracts attention, pieces that catch the eye and demand self-confidence and conviction to wear, 
thus challenging the boundaries of what constitutes jewellery.My work unsettles the borderline between beautiful 
and ugly in order to tease the perception of the beholder and to evoke reactions. I find it exciting and thrilling to trigger curiosity and challenge viewers to engage and discover, 
while simultaneously leaving space for individual interpretation. I believe that provoking this playful inquisitiveness 
is of value to us because it stimulates and originates distinct conditions, which in turn allow for experiences that we 
would not be exposed to otherwise.
The aesthetic qualities of my ambiguous jewellery are based on an organic form-vocabulary and the introduction of innovative 
materials and techniques, which I combine and contrast with my traditional goldsmithing skills. An open approach and 
material-based research, spontaneity and the dynamics that come from intuitive working processes enable me to develop 
a range of elements, which are then combined to create the compositions of my vibrant work.

Jewellery as an amulet – a bearer of memory, a reminder.

Creating scenes, as a stage designer offering the observer a gateway to an inner world of performance. A world outside our rational and material reality. Proposing a beyond that can not be formulated in words.

My jewellery is about metalingualism and roots. About silence and buildings. About a longing and a striving to remain, building, putting things in order and arranging things as if we would never dissapear.Backsides, insides and secret rooms are important aspects of my work. Carrying hidden rooms along – a secret close to your skin not allowed for everyone to see.

I graduated from Ädellab/Konstfack in 2008 and work since then in a studio in Midsommarkransen, Stockholm. My interest concerns the borders between the spoken and unspoken.

Forms, fragments – not as mere pictures of something but as reminiscences,
allowing various associations.
Leaving space to find a very specific connection between the piece and one’s
personal experiences. Possibly tracing down parts of a long lost story through
colors, forms and details carrying it on your body.

I am working with the structure of the silver surface (which is altered through
chasing and reticulation) and the merging of the color nuances of the various
enamels into each other and into the surface. I am interested in what is
happening within this surface, how a certain shape or structure could have originated.

Organic forms inspired by nature have also been important to me in my
photographic work, in my most recent pieces I draw a lot of inspiration
from the “licheni” – Italian for lichen.

http://www.margithart.at

©franco szymanski

©simon lagoarde

©franco szymanski

©pia farrugia

©franco szymanski

www.piafarrugia.com

Fragments is a series of samples available within its conjunt for a game of self-knowledge,
that might challenge the idea we conceive about what forms and binds us.
Each piece, in its dimension far from real and unproportional within the conjunt, is sometimes
difficult to identify. But aren’t we confined to a matter we do not perceive and yet it dominates and conducts us?
The different pieces, looking like loose fragments of an anatomical model will gain a new context
on the body of those who wear them.

LH, 2008

Fragments 08.01 – 03.02.2010
Gallery Contacto Directo, Oporto, PT

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“Beauty changes, breaks down and is reborn. Perfection can no longer be believed in.
The 20th century Scandinavian dream of the perfect land with ergonomic seating,
super-sonic aeroplanes, the pill and shatter-proof porcelain has eroded and evaporated.
Åsa Lockners art does not require perfection from the wearer, on the contrary her jewellery
relates to the body, protecting it and says that change is as it should be, that mortality is beautiful”
Since achieving my M.F A from Konstfack in Stockholm in 1999 I have dedicated most of my time
to working with unique, one-off jewellery pieces for exhibition, private customers and collectors.
During this time an increasing interest in my work has seen the evolution of several jewellery
collections that are in a continuous state of development and produced on a small scale.

www.asalockner.se

The objects are quietly mathematical. The forms of geometry are
easily related to the human-made. The rectangle appears throughout
the synthetic world. Yet in nature the rectangle is missing.
Created by man; elevators, subways, and tunnels are enclosures of great discomfort.
The sharp lines and planes of an elevator resemble those of a cube.
An unnaturally round tunnel echoes a cylinder.

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Jewellery is love

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