The works on display are a physical representation of a material dialogue and thought exchange between the two artists throughout a period of two years.
On the basis of six paired topics, Intimacy & Flexibility, Confidence & Togetherness and Care & Intention, the pieces have been constructed through an almost entirely collaborative process.
A material bank was created, comprising building blocks shaped and prepared in manners, which are typical for their individual practice, but given a new meaning in their collaborative compositions. Each paired topic or twin word has been paired with a colour code and an assortment of materials and forms, combined in compositions with the aim to convey the specific meaning of the words in a multi-sensory expression.
Smith & Saabye encourage their visitors to spend time responding to the jewellery works present by creating their own colour codes and compositions, within the exhibition.
The artists are anticipating a valuable dialogue with the visitors and aim to strengthen the encounter with their jewellery through such an interaction.
BIO
Josefine Rønsholt Smith’s work procedure is driven by materials and a discovery of their inherent qualities. She constructs pieces using both industrial methods as well as slow traditional crafts techniques on repurposed zink, wood and enamelled copper, exploring our connection with jewellery, and how visibly hand crafted objects play a defining role in what we perceive as precious. Her approach to jewellery craftsmanship is rooted in tradition and the importance of jewellery through rituals and relations.
Her works focus on identity, representation and belonging.
From the perspective of a person of colour she investigates, through her jewellery, ways to create new symbols, crests and totems to embody cultural duality.
Mette Saabye is one of Denmarks most distinguished jewellery artists. For more than 30 years she has refined and challenged her artistic expression to become a multisensory and nonverbal language. The making of jewellery art is her a way of being in touch with life and giving voice to her observations, understandings and perspectives on various subjects.
With her work Mette investigates themes such as memory, cultural identity, and is concerned with the impact of aesthetics on people, as well as the interrelation between body and object in a social context. Her works are typically expressed in an elegant and simple style.
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