Jewellery & identity

Even though wearing jewellery is a personal matter, jewellery is usually noticed in public spaces. It has always served as a means of communication and is therefore an ideal medium for artistic reflection. Jewellery can be a projection surface for fears, hopes and desires and thus give both the wearers and makers alike the possibility of communicating their own convictions or views and making clear via nonverbal cues where they stand on a wide range of issues. In the tacit communication process the jewellery object is the medium for broaching societally and socially relevant subjects, such as cultural and sexual identity or individual ideas on aesthetics, and tabling them for discussion.