Ivana Tilešová - Global Design Graduate Show Award
Ivana Tilešová (Slovakia)
Designer biography:
My name is Ivana Tilešová and I am an artist from Slovakia. I graduated from a master’s degree in the Jewellery department at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia. But before that I finished my bachelor studies in the Sculpture and Installation department, so even during creating jewellery I try to create a complex art piece. I really love to work multimedia and to connect multiple artistic disciplines in one artwork. My ideas and concepts are often human-centred. I am really interested in human emotions and personality. I love to use absurdity to convey my visions to the viewer.
Collection concept:
I explore and study my identity in the context of my own body. I consider human body as our archive which preserve all our memories and our life experiences are written on it. This work represents my self-reflection. I literally bring my own skin on the surface. I am searching what jewelry means to me and where can I see it. I find it in my own body and continue to experiment with it. I consider the human body a "jewel". And so I offer a new, my definition, of what jewelry actually is: "I consider jewelry to be something that we choose to decorate ourselves with (tattoo), something that life has decorated us with (scar), and something that we were born with and were given (birthmark)."
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