Human and Object by Esther Heite
Published: 24.01.2020
Hannah Gallery
- Mail:
- hannahgallery
klimt02.net
- Phone:
- + 34 933687235
- Management:
- Amador Bertomeu, Leo Caballero
Hannah Gallery presents an exhibition with Esther Heite, winner of the Klimt02 JPlus Emerging Talent Award 2019, works where the displacement of the familiar context is a repeating motif to generate a new aesthetic.
Artist list
Esther Heite
Esther Heite shows great talent in all three different contents of the study resp. the different areas of the design field. A strong sensitivity for material, form and colour accompanies her projects since the very beginning. Her examining character presents itself very successfully in the end; in her final thesis and in her jewellery pieces. The graduation work is both practically and theoretically very strong. For her final semester, she deals with the world of things, material culture and social aspects. Her design process is preceded by a question and basic analysis. She examines how we see things, what we see in them, how we read them, what they mean to us, what they ask and challenge us to do. At the same time, Esther Heite challenges her own work as a designer with the production of her graduation collection. It is a very differentiated work and the various approaches skillfully translated into material and wearable jewellery. Her choice of material is steel and as technique serves the spot welding. It is a consistent choice that presents her research in several and very felicitous ways.
Esther Heite's jewellery communicates about the world of things and has become part of it at the same time.
/ Prof. Jantje Fleischhut
My artwork demonstrates a confrontation with the world of material matters. Prior to my research, I assumed that the purely physical characteristics and functions of objects were more deeply bound to non-material attributes and symbolic energies. The alienation of the familiar connectivity (or context), of the function or form generates paradoxes which are intended to stimulate the carrier for reflection.
The explorative handling of the technology of welding activates in my workflow a new ornamental function. Combining the ornament and the function, all pieces of jewellery are characterized by some kind of fusion.
/ Esther Heite
About the groups of works on display:
Liquid Crystal
They are the access to another world, the main means of communication of our time, the interface between humanity and the machine. Detaching the displays from their technical connection resembles a dissecting act. The wafer-thin screens are dug out of the depth of the device with the utmost caution like a valuable raw material. The fragility resembles that of a precious gemstone. In terms of the form, I take up this association and work the LCD into gem-shaped objects in which they form the centre of the facet cut as a stone tablet. The representation of information becomes a dark, iridescent patch.
Misunderstood Genius
Through "Misunderstood genius" I attribute a central role to the incidental role of an ear-ring’s butterfly back in the process of wearing jewellery. The original shape is distorted as if the material could simply be pulled apart. The plug made of gold becomes a counterweight and loses importance despite its material value. The internal hierarchy of the piece jewellery shifts as a result. It combines the familiar with the unfamiliar.
Monolith
The technical objects of our everyday life contain an inner interrelationship in which causalities intertwine. Since electrical circuits have started to be used, this inner logic disappears behind screens, pads, buttons and panels. They are the interface to another world and reduce the mental and physical access to the monolithic-looking bodies to a shallow tactile movement. The smooth, black, cold, glass, metallic housings radiate a cool reserve. Things seem to come towards us out of nowhere. They become a fact that seems objective. This unfamiliarity with which the technological objects confront us is the starting point for the "Monolith" group.
Pixel Gleam
The arrangement of wires and welding spots creates an analogue image dot grid used to display an image and text. The setting of the welding spots can be compared with the on/off of small pixels. The setpoints create a pixel-based image in 3-dimensional material.
Sign.et
The flat surface with the seal creates the typical shape of the signet ring is, which forms the basis of the whole structure of the piece of jewellery. The combination of the ring and the image on the body makes its meaning visible: authority, privilege, belonging. These meanings disappear with the "sign.et" rings by highlighting their structure that has been made visible.
Esther Heite's jewellery communicates about the world of things and has become part of it at the same time.
/ Prof. Jantje Fleischhut
My artwork demonstrates a confrontation with the world of material matters. Prior to my research, I assumed that the purely physical characteristics and functions of objects were more deeply bound to non-material attributes and symbolic energies. The alienation of the familiar connectivity (or context), of the function or form generates paradoxes which are intended to stimulate the carrier for reflection.
The explorative handling of the technology of welding activates in my workflow a new ornamental function. Combining the ornament and the function, all pieces of jewellery are characterized by some kind of fusion.
/ Esther Heite
About the groups of works on display:
Liquid Crystal
They are the access to another world, the main means of communication of our time, the interface between humanity and the machine. Detaching the displays from their technical connection resembles a dissecting act. The wafer-thin screens are dug out of the depth of the device with the utmost caution like a valuable raw material. The fragility resembles that of a precious gemstone. In terms of the form, I take up this association and work the LCD into gem-shaped objects in which they form the centre of the facet cut as a stone tablet. The representation of information becomes a dark, iridescent patch.
Misunderstood Genius
Through "Misunderstood genius" I attribute a central role to the incidental role of an ear-ring’s butterfly back in the process of wearing jewellery. The original shape is distorted as if the material could simply be pulled apart. The plug made of gold becomes a counterweight and loses importance despite its material value. The internal hierarchy of the piece jewellery shifts as a result. It combines the familiar with the unfamiliar.
Monolith
The technical objects of our everyday life contain an inner interrelationship in which causalities intertwine. Since electrical circuits have started to be used, this inner logic disappears behind screens, pads, buttons and panels. They are the interface to another world and reduce the mental and physical access to the monolithic-looking bodies to a shallow tactile movement. The smooth, black, cold, glass, metallic housings radiate a cool reserve. Things seem to come towards us out of nowhere. They become a fact that seems objective. This unfamiliarity with which the technological objects confront us is the starting point for the "Monolith" group.
Pixel Gleam
The arrangement of wires and welding spots creates an analogue image dot grid used to display an image and text. The setting of the welding spots can be compared with the on/off of small pixels. The setpoints create a pixel-based image in 3-dimensional material.
Sign.et
The flat surface with the seal creates the typical shape of the signet ring is, which forms the basis of the whole structure of the piece of jewellery. The combination of the ring and the image on the body makes its meaning visible: authority, privilege, belonging. These meanings disappear with the "sign.et" rings by highlighting their structure that has been made visible.
Hannah Gallery
- Mail:
- hannahgalleryklimt02.net
- Phone:
- + 34 933687235
- Management:
- Amador Bertomeu, Leo Caballero
newsletter
Get the latest information about the international Jewellery Scene sent directly to your mailbox every week. View previous issues
-
What is Left Unsaid by Collective Caracú at Athens Jewelry Week 2020
10Nov2020 - 15Nov2020
Melanithros Art Space
Athens, Greece -
War
05Nov2020 - 08Nov2020
Weltraum Gallery
Munich, Germany -
POSTPONED / Abran Cancha. III Latin American Biennial of Contemporary Jewelry
04Sep2020 - 01Nov2020
Museo de la Historia del Traje
Museo de Arte Popular José Hernández
Buenos Aires, Argentina -
Max Ernst: The Würth Collection
18Jul2020 - 17Jan2021
Pforzheim Jewellery Museum
Pforzheim, Germany -
Covers by Tore Svensson
10Jun2020 - 10Jul2020
Hannah Gallery
Barcelona, Spain -
Glas Farbe Struktur by Ulrike Umlauf-Orrom
29May2020 - 04Jul2020
Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein
Munich, Germany -
Porträt im Laden. Formative Imagination by JaKyung Shin
29May2020 - 04Jul2020
Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein
Munich, Germany -
7 Cats 1 Life in Lisbon
28May2020 - 24Jun2020
Galeria Reverso
Lisbon, Portugal -
Light Steel by Sawa Aso
23May2020 - 25Jul2020
Galerie Rob Koudijs
Amsterdam, Netherlands -
Mixed Bag by Daniel Kruger / VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
23May2020 - 25Jul2020
Galerie Rob Koudijs
Amsterdam, Netherlands -
Urban Landscapes by Sol Hill / VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
22May2020 - 21Jun2020
Patina Gallery
Santa Fe, United States -
Konstfack University of Arts, Craft and Design. BA Degree Show 2020 / VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
22May2020 - 05Jun2020
Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design
Stockholm, Sweden -
Wismar, Hasselt, Itami. Three Countries, Three Cities, Three Schools
17May2020 - 26Jul2020
Pforzheim Jewellery Museum
Pforzheim, Germany -
Iron Identity by Alex Kinsley Vey / VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
15May2020 - 15Jun2020
Co-Adorn
Halifax, Canada -
BEIGE
14May2020 - 06Jun2020
Mette Saabye's gallery window
Copenhagen, Denmark
