LAURIANE SÉMAT

Designer biography:

Lauriane Sémat began her career as a visual artist. In different forms and with the help of various mediums, she continues to appropriate the body, especially female, by dealing with the issues of her time. In 2012, she decided to work on the body, no longer "directly" but by adorning it. The work of the material imposes itself on her in an imperious way.

Wishing to create "small sculptures to wear", she will spend more than a year looking for the material with which she will be free to create the pieces that have darkened her sketchbooks for several months. Three years later, satisfied with her research, she launches herself into the eyes of the general public with this fierce desire to erase the border between art and craftsmanship.

Collection concept:

The exploration around the female body plunged me into an unlimited curiosity around primary forms, but also gave me the desire to explore other registers. It is therefore an evolving and constantly renewed work. All of my collections are imagined as small sculptures to be worn on a daily basis. The use of aluminum makes it possible to create extremely light and durable jewelry. Everything is played around balance and refinement, sometimes using the most basic forms of our daily life, not without humor. I am currently working on mini-series of jewelry, such as the "standing in the kitchen" series which takes up the very common theme of the meal or even the animal caricatures of the brooches "the bugs".

I work around a jewel that I wish to be singular and recognizable in its craftsmanship.

All of my pieces are entirely handcrafted in aluminum and 925 silver.

Lauriane Sémat (France)

LAURIANE SÉMAT

Designer biography: