Conversation Piece / Post-Colonial Gold
This conversation piece stands in dialogue with Eva Hesse. Not by literally quoting her work, but by bringing forward the same attitude: the refusal of perfect form.
The object consists of rough white elements, an open circle and gold-toned wire. Together, they do not form a smooth piece of jewellery, but a tense construction. It seems to be body, amulet, loop and sculpture at the same time. The wire holds the forms together, but also makes visible that they do not naturally belong together.
That is where the tension begins.
In the 1960s, Eva Hesse broke open the cool perfection of Minimal Art. Where minimalism was often strict, industrial and controlled, Hesse brought in instability, bodily presence and doubt. She worked with materials such as latex, fibreglass, rubber, rope, cord and wire: materials that can hang, pull, discolour, age, fold or lose their shape.
In Hesse’s work, material is never only execution. The material thinks with the work. It resists. It does not fully obey form, system or control. That is precisely where its strength appears.
This object searches for the same value: Material Disobedience. The rough white forms are not smoothed out. The gold-toned wire is not decoration, but tension. The open circle does not neatly complete the object, but allows space, emptiness and imbalance to remain.
Within Post-Colonial Gold, this value takes on a wearable form. The object shows that value does not only lie in perfect finish, classical beauty or control. Value can also arise from resistance: from material that seems to have its own will, from forms that do not fully resolve, from a construction that visibly holds itself together.
For our time, this value feels urgent again. We live in a world where much is expected to appear smooth, marketable, filtered and finished. Material Disobedience reminds us that not everything needs to be perfect, stable or obedient in order to carry meaning. Sometimes renewal begins exactly where material talks back.
No ornament.
A form that refuses to behave neatly.
Each piece is handmade and unique. Through a unique ID and QR code, the object is connected to a digital layer: the artist, the value, the material reference and the context behind the work.
Specifications
Type: wearable sculpture / necklace
Material: rough white sculptural forms, gold-toned wire, transparent neck cord
Finish: handmade; each piece is unique
Collection: Conversation Pieces / Post-Colonial Gold
Artist in dialogue: Eva Hesse
Value: Material Disobedience
Digital layer: unique ID + QR code
Use: sculptural wearable object, handle with care
Price: €550
Shipping Info
Ships from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Each piece is carefully packed and shipped with tracking.
As every object is handmade and unique, small variations in finish, form and material are part of the work.
Meta Description
Handmade wearable sculpture necklace by Annelies Nuy, part of Conversation Pieces / Post-Colonial Gold, in dialogue with Eva Hesse and the value Material Disobedience.
HS code: 711790
EU commodity / CN code: 71179000
Product description: Handmade imitation jewellery / wearable sculpture necklace made with rough white sculptural forms, gold-toned wire and transparent cord.
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