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Monday 15th of May 2023, 17:00 FedLev Auditorium

Marion shows a great interest in transformations and metamorphosis. In particular, her work plays with the confusion between authenticity and imitation, and between nature and artifice. Through in-depth material and technical research Marion imagines new approaches to adorning and wearability.

Marion Delarue (1986) is based in Paris, France. She studied in France, South Korea and Estonia and holds a MA degree in Contemporary jewellery from the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg, France. She participated in several artist residencies in China, South Korea and Japan and exhibits her work internationally.

Monday 15th of May, 17:00

Auditorium – Fed Lev Building
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Fred. Roeskestraat 96
1076 ED Amsterdam

Marion Delarue is currently an artist in residency at Stichting Françoise van den Bosch https://francoisevandenbosch.nl/en/
We hope to see you there!

Artificial intelligence, metaverse worlds and digital structures frame the way humans think while drastically reshaping the way landscapes are handled. The main focus for this research involves exploring the way technology lives through extractivism, dependent on mineral and geological sources.

With the Jewellery – Linking Bodies department, and for the fellowship I will use methodologies of care, empathy and detail as a means to explore more-than-human infinitudes in technology. Together with the Jewellery – Linking Bodies department my aim is to explore what technology theorist Maria Puig de la Bellacasa says, that in the age of technological acceleration, caring becomes a living technology that can generate relationships of empathy with the living world (2017:95). With this in mind, the approach taken by a craft discipline, which aims to understand how things work from the inside and how things relate to each other, can become a caring attitude, exploring how technologies are rooted in physical landscapes. Finding ways to reflect on the environmental consequences of modern digital life and potential parallels between digital and colonial enforcement that so effectively objectify the non-human world. 

Munich Jewellery week 2023

In basic terms, jewellery may be understood as wearable artwork, a platform for everyday activism, or simply the class of objects closest to the body. Yet jewellery undoubtedly also carries historical, anthropological and environmental legacies, and these require urgent rethinking in light of the ecological disasters and imperial decadence of our present moment. Doing so raises fundamental questions about the contemporary place and potential of jewellery. How can one doubt the very object that is in front of her? 

 Bodies of Knowledge is an exhibition of work by current and a selection of former students (2018–2023) of the Jewellery – Linking Bodies Department. It showcases a particular attitude towards jewellery – one characterized by constant questioning of the historical, material, environmental and societal contexts within which jewellery is located. This attitude asks us to reconsider, among other things, how we conceive of bodies and their limits. In a world where the human, as a separate, self-contained entity, is no longer the epitome of power and progress, new understandings of the body may open pathways toward new modes of ecological being. Rather than seeking to possess objects, being ecological means moving through and sharing processes and space with other humans, species, and non-human entities. It suggests new relations to space, to the body, to material and to society. It points at potential worlds, as conceived otherwise: bodies are no longer defined by being human or not. Through jewellery, as a practice that fundamentally links all kinds of bodies and allows for both individual and collective contemplation and investigation, we can propose and craft new potentialities for being otherwise.