Alma Lion (Israel) - Global Design Graduate Award
ALMA LION
Biography:
Alma lion is a graduate cum laude of Shenkar College of Engineering, art and Design and a graduate student in industrial design at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design .Her work has been shown at many international group exhibitions. She has been the winner of ARTSTHREADS x GUCCI 2021 and of the 2021 Galeri Marzee Graduate Prize . Lion cherishes the sensuality of the design process, and the quality of its end product, but design for her does not exist in vacuum. To make something as well as it could be, or as it should be, to do the right thing, to make things right, to correct wrongs, cannot be reduced to an aesthetic endeavour but must encompass the social and the ethical as well.
Collection concept: Across the Land
The material culture is not merely a survival tool, but a testament to our values and identity, as individuals and as a society. In my exploration of responsible alternatives, I have wandered across the land, and researched simple, local, available materials. Basic manipulations - such as grinding , kneading and casting - and a labour-intense and time-consuming process, resulted in 5 necklaces . they are fragile and temporary much like my country's liquid borders and volatile politics. They recount the process of their coming into being, as well as the story of the place we live in, and our identity within it .
AlmaLion_necklace_Sand and Tar_2022_35 x 10 x 60 cm
AlmaLion_necklace_sea salt_2022_40 x 5 x 100 cm
AlmaLion_necklace_Rusted steel, Rusted iron and Earth_2022_35 x 2 x 600 cm
