Yonghui Duan

Statement

Plastic into Bodies, 2019
This was a collection inspired by the question of where food packaging is going. Research showed that most food packages are being made of plastic and end up in the ocean. The weather, the ocean and other natural factors will break them into very small plastic pieces. When we eat or drink they will therefore then enter our bodies. Yonghui's collection of contemporary jewellery and tools combines both aesthetics and function but also aims at being thought-provoking. The pieces are interactive, wishing the audience to realise how serious the problem of plastic pollution really is. The bioplastic she placed in the work is edible and naturally degradable.


Jewellery in the Kitchen, 2018
This was a collection that has explored the working relationship between the process of cooking food and how people use the process of cooking to communicate with food. One communication method of how we interact with food is using kitchen utensils as tools to engage with it. She has researched the relationships and boundaries between kitchen utensils and jewellery. Yonghui's work is a collection of wearable kitchen utensils that are aesthetic, functional and ambiguous. Her collection demonstrates a new way through which people can communicate with artefacts and food during the process of cooking and also blurs boundaries between kitchen utensils and jewellery.
 

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