Pure staging

By the latter half of the twentieth century, jewellery was firmly established as a sector of contemporary art and as a medium for creative expression. Even though the wearability factor is always also part of the definition of what constitutes jewellery, the impact jewellery makes transcends its purely aesthetic function.

In the dawn of human history, jewellery served as a medium of communication by making externally visible differences in social rank and affiliation. And jewellery still represents a means for cultivating one’s self-image in the social sphere. Its signalling quality functions both for its wearers and the artists who make it as a vehicle for expressing their individual personalities – sometimes even in a playful way. Jewellery expresses how we perceive and understand ourselves and our environment and the place we want to take in it.