Waiting

Super Charged-Hopes and Protections on the Body

• About artwork

When do you feel yourself lucky? Or blessed?

I don’t believe in magic, but I believe when I see a rainbow in the morning that good things will happen.

Just wait and good things will happen naturally. Like when fishing, you only need to wait for the fish to take the bait. In my work, fish are willing to be caught. That’s why I made a straight hook.

My work is a charm that attracts something to its owner. What my charm attracts will appear in the form of a koi fish. Koi, in different patterns, symbolize different things. Wealth, healthy, luck. . . you can decide for yourself which koi represents what. If you only want good fortune to come, then you take the koi that symbolizes fortune and put it on the hook.

Backstory

“Super Charged-Hopes and Protections on the Body” investigates the hopes, desires, and fears that prompt us to create amulets and talismans as adornments and objects today.

This project developed from the ZADAN educational project, hosted by Jewellery Art at HDK-Valand. Six trans-disciplinary online lectures from an artist, curator, sociologist, archeologist, and anthropologist that explored the theme of magical dimensions of jewellery started this project. We presented the results of our discussions and engagements with the subject in the exhibition, ‘Super Charged—Hopes and Protections on the Body’, in Gothenburg, March 10-13, 2022

The instinct to cover our bodies with strong magical things is one small reaction to the many uncontrollable events that impact everyday life. Amulets and talismans are believed – by some – to carry magical powers. Their materials and purposes can be as varied as the powers: Pomanders, Omomoris, dolls to protect from demons of fever, Breveln, a piece of red wool, a blue eyed-glass bead, facial masks, leather pendants that contain herbs. These magical items have little scientific validity to ensure concrete prophylactic or apotropaic effects. Instead, they carry fabricated narratives and can trigger in us a sense of wonder. Concretely, these items signal some of the real challenges and fears individuals face.

Which materials have been chosen, and to protect whom? How and from what? And what promises do we (makers and wearers) make? Many different directions have been taken and collectively these artworks are “super charged”.

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CRAFT LABORATORY | HDK-VALAND | Academy of Art and Design

A lot interesting artwork from my classmates.

Exhibition

Many people visited our exhibition and I am very happy and proud of this exhibition.

The whole exhibition can be said to be built bit by bit by us students. The websites layout, promotion, posters, brochures, communication with photographers, arrangement of the exhibition. . . Although there were unpleasant memories in the process but I don’t regret participating in the Zadan project.