Anastasia Kandaraki
Jeweller
Published: 18.02.2025
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Bio
Anastasia Kandaraki is a jewelry artist, educator, founder of Anamma Studio and co-founder & partner of Athens Jewelry Week. She holds a MFA in Contemporary Jewelry and Body Ornament from Alchimia Jewelry School in Florence, mentored by Lucy Sarneel and a BA in contemporary jewelry mentored by Manfred Bischoff. Her work has formed part of exhibitions in various countries in Europe, USA, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Australia. Currently, she lives and works in Athens, where she creates, teaches and organises jewelry seminars and exhibitions.Statement
About Gestures of Clamping:Limited edition of 15 jewelry pieces inspired by industrial devices. An attempt to illustrate and also handle the overall feeling during the coronaviruslockdown. 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.
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The knowledge of the world is identical to the dissolution of its consistency - Ovid
By exploring the properties of materials through a process of continuous deconstruction and reconstruction, I attempt to understand the nature of existence and, thus, of the world. This work at the limits is also a means to probe what I am and what I am not – and perhaps what we all can be.
Tradition and preciousness are important to me. Coming from a family of goldsmiths, I have a deep respect for traditional techniques; yet I have been trying to use them in my own personal way. You see, I don’t believe preciousness is only related to the value of the material. I think it is mostly dependant on the story and symbolism a piece of jewelry carries.
I draw my inspiration from everyday life and my surroundings, as well as social interactions and human values. I am usually working with hard materials: silver, steel, bone and wood. Their resistance, durability, toughness and the traces of corrosion found on them, are qualities that truly fascinate me and are often reflected on my work.
I consider jewelry as something intimate; as a channel of communication with oneself; as a link between our physical and emotional existence. But jewelry also operates as a social statement made by its wearer, as a form of interaction between body and space, individuals and society.
With this in mind, I create three-dimensional objects that function as an extension of the human body. Jewelry pieces inspired by people, for people. And by constantly questioning the nature of existence, as well as that of jewelry, I move on.
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