LODIE KARDOUSS

To act together in the same space-time is a social act.

A jewel, from the hands of its maker to the person wearing it, is a rather solitary journey. This solitude is welcomed with benevolence by their creators who want to protect their manufacturing secrets. Exposed, the jewel is usually observed by only one person at a time, if only because of its size, but especially because it addresses only one person at a time. Worn, it can attract the attention of the observer so strongly that the person wearing it disappears behind it.

Creating an XXL necklace to be embodied and activated together, whose nature changes from an ornamental piece to a live composition offers a collective experience and turns the wearer into an actor.

A Jewelry Piece combines the expertise of the jeweler through the large-scale handmade silver clasp and that of the choreographer through the choreographic composition performed inside the fishnet cocoons forming the necklace. This piece offers to strengthen the ties that bind us together through a combination of mediums that were not expected to work together, to remind us that it is up to us to unite and that there are as many ways to do so as there are people.

Concept and design: Lodie Kardouss

Technical production: Max Gielis, Marina Palovaara and Lodie Kardouss

Performed by: Maria Ferreira Silva, Eva Honings, Gala Moody, Marina Palovaara and Jason Respilieux

Director: David Nollet

Director of photography: Zvonock

Sound art: Sylvie Bouteiller

Editing: David Nollet, Lodie Kardouss

Special thanks to: Olivier Conrardy, Paolo Franco, Pieter T'Jonck and Citygate Brussels

Performed in Mons during Creative Nature exhibition in November 2022 by: Emmi Väisänen, Rafael Galdino, Marina Palovaara, Colas Lucot and Mariana Miranda

Presented as a short film during the Beijing Design Week from September to November 2020

Presented as a mosaic of 15 photographs displayed at the French Institute in Barcelona as part of the Off joya barcelona art jewellery & objects event in October 2019

Presented as a short film in Melbourne in September 2019 during Radical Pavlova exhibition

Performed in Strasbourg during L.I.E.E.S exhibition in June 2019 by: Maud Andriamanan, Zoé Baptista, Hugo Divetain, Emilie Fourrier and Anais Melchior

Performed in Athens during the Athens Jewelry Week in May 2019 by: Eugenia Georgiou Feroussi, Aliki Georgoulopoulou, Nikol Kafetzopoulou, Anna Kalogera and Christiana Kosiari

Review by Melis Agabigum click here