Jewellery does not only represent personal objects. It is also a medium through which the wearer can make a statement, convey an attitude, and showcase one’s aesthetic sense to the general public. When we move about in the public, our body becomes a mobile exhibition platform, bringing our ideas into every corner of this connected space. The seemingly opposite stances of personal and public thus become hazy, and open to discussion.
We use jewellery as the means. This medium is something that is close to our body, and very familiar in our cultural understanding. Furthermore, we utilize familiar objects that we can easily find in public spaces, like tin cans, pencils, rubber bands etc. in our creations. We use familiar materials to create familiar objects for a familiar site, our body. However, this supposedly mundane process can lead to surprising experience and outcomes.
We hope to awaken the participants’ concern about our relationship with our surroundings, and allow them to gain a deeper appreciation of jewellery as a creative medium.
Ching Sze Yin, Cicy (Dec, 2012)
首飾不單是個人的物件，它同時也是個人向公眾展示其個人立場、態度、愛好等的媒體。
當個人在公眾地方活動時，其身體本身更可說是流動的展示場地，把個人意念帶進其活動的每一空間。因此看似是對立的「個人」及「公眾」關係，變得互動及界線模糊。
今次我們特別以和身體接近及為大眾熟悉的首飾作媒介，並會運用大眾熟悉的、在公共空間隨處可見的日常物料進行創作。意圖以熟悉的人體作場地，把熟悉的物料幻變成熟悉的物種：首飾。而這本應是非常熟悉、平常的一切卻可能融和出不熟悉的經驗及成果。希望由此可喚醒大家對周邊事物和個人關係的關注，並對首飾作為創作媒體多一點認識。
程詩賢 (二零一二年十二月)
