Julie Decubber continues to immerse
her work into the eclectic world
of contemporary ceramics. Fifteen ceramic
artists supplied her with their rejected
waste: endangered materials intended
to be destroyed. Julie Decubber celebrates
them by creating a collection of “jewelstories”,
using their shards as materials,
revealing the personalities of the ceramic
artists with overlaying her own, as exquisite
relics. In turning them into jewels,
these fragments take on new, intimate
significance.
Stefania Lucchetta is a pioneer in the
usageof 3D modeling software and
prototyping machines in the field
of jewellery. For nearly twenty years,
she has used these novel technologies
to produce complex forms that are
impossible to achieve through traditional
techniques. Titanium, her preferred
material, allows her to combine lightness
and expressivity. The fifteen pieces
of jewellery presented on view are true
sculptures in miniature form: her earlier
geometric and abstract structures evolve,
in more recent pieces produced for the
exhibition, into organic sculptures closer
to shapes found in nature.
Halfway between jewellery and
documentary, the exhibition is immersed
in a soundscape recorded during the
encounters between the designer and
the artists.
Julie Decubber, Farandole installation, 2020
Photo: Julie Decubber
The “Collect / Connect. Contemporary
Jewellery” exhibition reveals the most
recent explorations and showcase the
formal audacity of contemporary jewellery.
The fifteen ceramic artist who partnered with Julie Decubber
• Héloïse Bariol
• Enrica Casentini,
• Nani Champy-Schott
• Agnès Debizet
• Julia Huteau
• Kaori Kurihara
• Julia Morlot
• Linda Ouhbi
• Émilie Pedron
• Fanny Richard
• Alice Toumit
• Francine Triboulet
• Léa Van Impe
• Anne Verdier
• Ulrike Weiss
Discover the “Tessons Exquis 2020” project, an exploration of contemporary ceramics through the documentary jewellery > https://tessons-exquis.juliedecubber.com/