Anastasia Gemeliari

Artist Statement

The Quiet Contract is a body of work shaped by unease—anxiety held inside the gesture. Through porcelain rings, she explores how acts of care, adornment, and ritual can also function as structures of discipline, silently shaping who is allowed to choose, who is permitted to speak, move, and belong. Porcelain becomes both material and metaphor: precious, luminous, pure, fragile—yet capable of being sealed into permanence through fire. These rings turn her attention to what often remains invisible: the subtle boundaries between invitation and obligation, intimate surrender and control, touch and ownership. Some pieces are wearable, others resist the body and provoke discomfort, insisting that fragility can be a form of knowledge rather than weakness.

Curriculum Vitae

Anastasia Gemeliari (b. 1984, Athens) is a ceramic jewelry artist based in Athens, Greece. With a background in medical laboratory technology, her practice explores the body as a site of ritual, fragility, and control. Since 2013 she has participated in exhibitions in Greece and internationally, including Munich Jewelry Week and Sieraad International Art Fair in Amsterdam. In 2016 she co-founded Pilino Soma, one of the first collective initiatives for ceramic jewelry in Greece. In 2024 she founded SES Studio, a ceramics and ceramic jewelry studio in Athens, creating a space dedicated to hands-on making, artistic research, and collective creative practice.

BROOCH01, Collection: THE QUIET CONTRACT

Brooch | Parian Porcelain, Hand-Shaped And Sculpted, Double-Glazed, Triple Kiln-Fired. Refractory Wire, 925 Sterling Silver, Rubber Clasps.