Nava Avnit - Israel - Global Creative Graduate Showcase
Nava Hadar Avnit
Designer biography:
Master's student in art history and visual culture - research - curation major. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. Graduated from the jewelry and fashion department of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel (BFA 2023). Student exchange at Alchimia Contemporary Jewelery School in Firenze, Italy (2021). A year of art studies at Pardes Art School, and the Art Faculty at Beit Berl College, Israel (2019). Participated in the exhibition 'SAGSOGET', of the Jewelry and Fashion department Bezalel, at the Pinakothek in Munich, Germany. Participated in the Marzee International Graduate Show 2023 in Nijmegen, Holland.
Collection concept:
“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy”. The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus.
The "absurd" in philosophy refers to the futility of a search for meaning in an incomprehensible universe. The conflict between a person's endless desire to understand existence, versus the inability to find and understand its meaning. I find this absurdity in artistic labor as well, which on the one hand connects one to the essence of life, and on the other hand seems to be disconnected from a person's day to day struggles. In this project I made a series of necklaces in the context of this continuous conflict, between life and death, creation and cessation. The images I use reflect ideas of liveliness and development. When wearing the jewelry, these ideas are linked to real physical feelings, of suffocation, of a structured and processual movement. The jewelry wraps around the body in a circular motion, as if endless. In this series I go from the individual to the general, repeating the same shape over and over ,breaking it down into its elements, keeping the tension. To create for the sake of creating.
NavaAvnit_brooch_TorsoBrooch_2023_newsprint_silver_200x280 mm_photograph Shalev Arie
NavaAvnit_necklace_Giulia'sNecklace_2024_recycled silver_ 175x20 mm
NavaAvnit_necklace_MonsterNecklace_2023_recycled copper_silver_silver solder_410x40 mm_photograph Shalev Arie (2)
NavaAvnit_necklace_SpiralNecklaceNO.1_2023_recycled copper_silver_silver solder_ 290x480 mm_photograph Shalev Ariel
NavaAvnit_necklace_SpiralNecklaceNO.2_2023_recycled copper_silver_silver solder_ 210x470 mm_photograph Shalev Ariel