Anastasia Kandaraki

JELO6 PROJECT AWARD, ATHENS 2024 - INDIVIDUAL ARTIST

Artist Statement

Clamp brooches | Limited edition of 15 jewelry pieces inspired by industrial devices. An attempt to illustrate and also handle the overall feeling of the social restriction we live in. Jewelry, made of steel, which serves as a symbol of restraint, safety and support, yet constricts in a rigid, strict position and thus creates a sense of immobility, atrophy, suffocation.

Clamp (n.) (v.) (noun)

- a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.

- an appliance with opposite sides or parts that may be adjusted or brought closer together to hold or compress something.

(verb)

to fasten with or fix in a clamp.

(verb phrases)

clamp down, to become stricter.

clamp down on, to impose or increase controls on.

[Source: www.dictionary.com]

Curriculum Vitae

Anastasia Kandaraki (b. 1983, Athens) is a contemporary jewelry artist, educator, and mentor, as well as the founder of the jewelry school ANAMMA. She was the co-founder and co-organizer of Athens Jewelry Week (AJW). She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Contemporary Jewelry and Body Ornament and a BA in Contemporary Jewelry from Alchimia Jewelry School in Florence. Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, and in 2020 she was selected for Schmuck München in Germany. For her, jewelry is an intimate channel of communication and a link between physical and emotional existence. It serves as a social statement and a form of interaction between the body, space, and society.

Title: CLAMP #6

Collection: GESTURES OF CLAMPING

Kind: Brooch

Materials: Steel