In Touch 2018
Co-curator for exhibition In Touch at the Radierverein during Munich Jewelry Week.
It feels as if our world is spinning faster and faster. Data and communication streams flow 24/7 at almost every place on the planet. The reality of our immediate environment blends with that of the virtual world. In fact, we live in several realities at once while being connected to humanity globally.
What is the relationship between technology, nature, and communication in this context? What do jewelry artists have to say about it, and how do they address this subject in their work?
We want to address the issues that arise on the heels of these questions in our exhibition as follows:
How do we perceive reality in an era of technology and virtual worlds? What is ‘real’ in the interspace between the real environment and virtual reality? How does our reality change when information, news, and images are at our fingertips anytime anywhere?
What role do our senses play in the perception of this world? Does our perception and the resulting associations shift at the interplay of virtual and real world? Is there room for spirituality, for focused concentration, for silence?
How do we relate to nature in a world that is dominated by urbanization where nature mostly appears as imagery? Are we on the look out for the experience of nature or does an image of it suffice? Or do they both blend together? What do we long for?
How do we communicate in and with this real-virtual world? How does virtual communication influence interpersonal interactions? Does our language change? If so, how? Does the role of communication change when we’re able to spread news about us and others within seconds on social media, reaching thousands of people at once?
Jewelry as an artform worn on the body is a medium with which we express our identity and communicate this with our environment.
In our exhibition we would like to show jewelry that is not only ‘contemporary’ in the sense that it is made nowadays, but that also addresses current issues in our society.