States of Being

Moving between organic, affective, and corporeal states, the artists propose different ways of engaging with material and relating to objects. Jewellery becomes a site of encounter: forms in which memory, presence, and movement converge. Through metal, stone, textile, and found materials, each artist develops a distinct visual language through which objects become extensions of the body, vessels of intimacy, or carriers of lived experience.

In Caroline Pham’s (ORA-C) work, forms evoke organisms suspended between emergence and mutation. Inspired by natural cycles and the tension between raw materials and precious metals, her sculptures seem inhabited by a quiet energy, suspended somewhere between relic and living form. Wasselena Bilak’s practice centres on transmission and affective memory, where jewellery becomes a vessel for emotion and familial inheritance. With Pauline Ebel (Soie Lait), jewellery becomes an extension of the body: her articulated and modular forms explore the relationships between constraint, movement, and inner expression.

Through States of Being, jewellery emerges as more than something simply worn on the body. It becomes a space where gestures, stories, and transformations take shape—marked by the traces of time, bodies, and living matter.