Bijoux - Jewellery

Andrée Weschler's work encompasses different mediums mainly performance, video and installation. However she also enjoys working with clay. Though these pieces are worn as jewellery, they should be seen as sculptures as each piece is one of it's kind and signed by the artist.

Weschler exhibits a collection of rings carved in porcelain, sandstone and glass, made during the last ten years. The rings bear the imprint of her multiple travels by their color, their shape and also their material used. According to her, wearing a porcelain ring enters the wearer into the world of performance, the fragility of the ring giving a new dimension to the relationship of the body and space.

 

Innocence #03

ICASTICA 2013, First Women Biennale, Arezzo, Italy

Picture by Anita Vozza

Italy 2013 Picture by Anita Vozza

Italy 2013 Picture by Anita Vozza

Innocence

“In 2006, my life was a desert. Everybody seemed busy, active, alive, while I was a prisoner in my own apartment. Nothing was happening in my life, and I felt I was a thing among others in my home. One day I received from a friend a pack of clay. I started to roll small pearls of porcelain from the clay for no reason. They were cute. To escape from my lethargy, every night I rolled pearls made of porcelain, like Penelope weaving her tapestry while waiting for Ulysses, except that in my story there was no Ulysses. All the pearls together became a very long necklace of a few metres; very beautiful, very difficult to move, very heavy.”

This was some years ago and for me it is now impossible to repeat that work. Everything has changed since then: the others and I. Therefore the symbolism of the pearls has evolved as well. This time the necklace will weight 50 kilogrammes to embody my 50 years of life. It was a spontaneous idea that I had, which I expressed the idea with joy; 50 is a number so easily said but 50 kilogrammes of porcelain can be tedious and laborious.

 

Italy 2013 Picture by Anita Vozza

Italy 2013 Picture by Anita Vozza