Complete refreshed profile with works of the series: Dose of the Future, Heidegger's Lab, Mortals and the Jug and Norderney.
Katia Toporski
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Published: 29.04.2021
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Pendant: Dose of the Future 01, 2019
Silver, optical filter, acrylic, silk.
3 x 5.5 x 1 cm
Unique piece
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Pin: Dose of the Future 2-5, 2020
Silver, reconstituted eggshell optical filter, acrylic.
Between 1 x 1 x 1 cm and 1.5 x 6 x 1 cm
Serie of 5 pieces
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Pin: Dose of the Future 2-5, 2020
Silver, reconstituted eggshell optical filter, acrylic.
Between 1 x 1 x 1 cm and 1.5 x 6 x 1 cm
Back view
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Brooch: Dose of the Future 11, 2020
Silver, reconstituted eggshell, gelatin, optical filter, acrylic.
12 x 6 x 2 cm
Unique piece
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Brooch: Dose of the Future 13, 2020
Silver, reconstituted eggshell optical filter, acrylic.
11 x 5 x 2 cm
Unique piece
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Brooch: Dose of the Future 18, 2020
Silver, reconstituted eggshell optical filter, acrylic.
8 x 3 x 1 cm
Unique piece
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Brooch: Dose of the Future 18, 2020
Silver, reconstituted eggshell optical filter, acrylic.
8 x 3 x 1 cm
Alternative view
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Brooch: Dose of the Future 21, 2020
Silver, reconstituted eggshell optical filter, acrylic.
7.5 x 4.5 x 2 cm
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Brooch: Dose of the Future 25, 2020
Silver, reconstituted eggshell optical filter, acrylic.
10 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm
Unique piece
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Brooch: Dose of the Future 25, 2020
Silver, reconstituted eggshell optical filter, acrylic.
10 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm
Front view
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Brooch: Dose of the Future 26, 2020
Silver, reconstituted eggshell.
20 x 7 x 1.5 cm
Unique piece
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Brooch: Norderney 1, 2019
Silver, Lithophane print, optical filter.
6 x 6 x 1 cm
Unique pìece
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Brooch: Norderney 3, 2019
Silver, Lithophane print, optical filter.
6 x 6 x 1 cm
Unique piece
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Brooch: Heidegger’s Lab 5, 2018
Silver, optical filter, acrylic.
10 x 10 x 2.5 cm
Unique piece
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Brooch: Heidegger’s Lab 5, 2018
Silver, optical filter, acrylic.
10 x 10 x 2.5 cm
Alternative view
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Brooch: Mortals and the Jug 2, 2017
Silver, optical filter, polyurethane, acrylic.
5 x 4 x 2 cm
Unique piece
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Brooch: Mortals and the Jug 6, 2017
Silver, optical filter, polyurethan, acrylic.
6.5 x 5 x 2.5 cm
Unique piece
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Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Katja Toporski is a jewelry maker, professor, and writer with an MFA from Towson University, living just outside of Washington DC. She also holds a medical degree and had been a practicing anesthesiologist prior to her career in jewelry. Her work is informed by philosophical thinking and juxtaposes archetypal objects and elements to explore the limitations of our knowledge of things in life. It has been shown in numerous exhibitions across the US as well as internationally, both in group and solo exhibitions. She also has worked on curating, most recently the exhibition Site Effects, which was exhibited at the Bayerische Kunstgewerbeverein in Munich and the Baltimore Jewelry Center in 2020.
Statement
What do we see?A square brooch that comprises a shimmery image of the North Sea that reminds me of a reality in my past. Maybe it reminds you, the person looking at it, of a reality in yours? But what we see is only a faint image, 3D printed as a Lithophane, the mirror behind it contributing to its surreal atmosphere. The brooch acts merely as a token, like a memory, a postcard of sorts. Does the space behind the image offer a different perspective, access to something beyond, knowledge that we would otherwise be denied?
What do we long for?
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Complete refreshed profile with works of the series: Dose of the Future, Heidegger's Lab, Mortals and the Jug and Norderney.
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