Manon van Kouswijk. Hanging Around, The Pearl Chain Principle

Book / Catalogues Monograph

Published: 06.07.2010

Manon van Kouswijk

Text by:: Pravu Mazumdar, Marjan Unger

Edited by:: Uitgeverij Boek

Edited at:: Amsterdam

Edited on:: 2010

Technical data:: 68 pages, hardcover, colour and black & white photographs, text in English, 17 x 27 cm

ISBN / ISSN:: 978-90-804085-5-5

Out of print

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This exhibition catalogue shows a new series of porcelain necklaces and a selection from her pearl necklaces done in the last 15 years. She has also collected pictures in which the phenomenon of the pearl necklace is visible.

For all I know the galaxy is a necklace and planet earth a giant bead.
/ Manon van Kouswijk

Hanging Around / The Pearlchain Principle is an artist book that is based on a selection of Manon van Kouswijk's beaded necklaces of the last 15 years, including a series of recent ones.
The photography of the necklaces is based on the diverse display traditions of beaded necklaces, ranging from the jeweller's window display to images of necklaces on an auction website.
These full colour pictures are shown in the context of a large image archive in which the various aspects of the beaded necklace come to the fore; the thread, the knots, the beads as particles, the repetition, the necklace as a system, as a language, and the 'visual synonyms'; all kinds of things in which the basic principle of a bead necklace is recognisable, but which, in fact, are not necklaces.
By showing these images alongside the actual necklaces, the possibillity is there to see each bead necklace as an all-embracing piece of information played out on all kinds of levels - from a supernova in the universe to the smallest particle of tangible matter.

Concept and realisation: Manon van Kouswijk
Photography: Uta Eisenreich