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A Swelling of the Ground
Group Exhibition, Artist Talk
c/o Burg, Blutenburgstraße 59, 80636 München-Neuhausen-Nymphenburg, Germany
Elise Hoebeke, Transmutation d’une brique – bracelets en brique, 2021, Brick. Photographer Elise Houbeke
Opening event: 13.03, Thu 17:30-21:00 at Blutenburgstraße 59
Artist Talks: 13.03, Thu 15:30-17:30 at Hirschbergstraße 9
Event duration: 14-15.03.2025, Fri- Sat 12:00-18:00
Sand and brick, everyday materials that we easily take for granted, are handled with care and transformed into precious objects.
Sand is ubiquitously present in our world and yet it is mined for use in buildings, roads and electronics to a point that it is becoming scarce. Environmental programs are expressing their concerns as the scale of extraction of sand harms ecosystems; rivers, dunes, oceans and their inhabitants. Bricks have been hand-made in Belgium and the Netherlands for centuries, clay was found locally and brick types named after cities, regions and rivers. Even though there are now industrial alternatives, people still keep old bricks, stored in a shed at the back of the yard to one day build something new.
What can a single brick or a handful of sand tell us about resources and standardization, about their value and the time it took the earth and the people to shape them?
Measured precisely, cut like a precious stone, cast in Delft clay and held in diamond packaging; objects with granular surfaces are handcrafted as carriers for possible answers to this question.
’We paused before a House that seemed | A Swelling of the Ground‘ is a group exhibition and conversation between Elise Hoebeke, Saskia Van der Gucht, Irma Földényi and Saskia van Es, representing jewellery practice, research and theory from Sint Lucas Antwerpen.
Elise Hoebeke, Saskia Van der Gucht, Irma Földényi and Saskia van Es are colleagues at Studio sieraad, the jewellery department of Sint Lucas Antwerpen, Belgium.
The programme at Sint Lucas Antwerpen emphasizes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to jewellery design, focusing on the cultural, social, and personal significance of jewellery. We explore the reasons people wear jewellery and reinterpret its archetypal features in contemporary, meaningful ways.
Saskia van Es is an art historian and teacher. She writes about contemporary jewellery for Art Jewelry Forum, Klimt02 and other platforms. Her fascination lies in the materials from which jewellery is made.
Irma Földényi is a Rotterdam based designer who works across design, research and education. She is currently a PhD researcher with her project ‘Voices of Materials’. By giving form to context, she aims to reveal nuanced stories from our anthropocenic geological era.
Saskia Van der Gucht is a visual artist, researcher and teacher. Her work deals with the complexities of value and ecologies of extracted scarce materials such as sand. Through a combination of story-telling and references to jewellery and architecture, she translates these subjects into objects, writing, photography and drawings.
Elise Hoebeke is a contemporary jewellery artist who holds an MA in visual arts – jewellery from Sint Lucas Antwerp, where she currently teaches at the BA jewellery design program. With a background in interior design, she connects domestic space, objects and jewellery in a body-related scale to explore the themes of standardization and measurements.
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@irmafoldenyi
@saskia.kollf.van.es
@studiosieraad
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