Techniques and materials

Project title: E-branch

PROJECT CONCEPT

What changes has technology brought to our living environments? What is nature now? Thereupon, I set myself to explore the new form of nature by repurposing everyday object.

Electrical cable is the indispensable but easily overlooked object in our daily life. They are buried under the ground, sprawling and transmitting energy to almost everywhere. For me, cable to our everyday life, is the same as what branch is to the leaves. I reshaped the cables into branchlooking wearable pieces by different methods. The confusing visuality and contradicting tactility of the pieces speak about the multivocal definitions

of nature in the modern society.

Name of supervisor(s)

Benedikt Fischer, Wieke Aerts

Education

09/2022 – 06/2023 Master of Jewelry Design & Gold and Silversmithing, Magna cum laude


Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, BE

10/2020 – 06/2022 Bachelor of Jewelry Design & Gold and Silversmithing, Cum laude


Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, BE

09/2015 – 06/2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Arts and Crafts


Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (SCFAI), P.R. China

Awards

2023

Award for Jewelry Design of graduation, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, B 

2nd prize of BKV Prize 2023, Munich, DE

2021

Starters Prize 2021 of Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp  

Honourable mentions of the Jury, BE

2019

Academic Awards for the Outstanding Graduate works by SCFAI, CN