Jewellery – Linking Bodies
The Weight Between Us
Wearable textile sculpture
The feeling that no one can see, hidden under your skin, is one that you can’t explain. It’s that moment when you feel like an outsider, burdened by the weight of other people’s eyes.
As a non-EU student living in the Netherlands, I often carry the weight of my emotions, constantly facing one obstacle after another. Pressure, difficulties, loneliness, sadness, homesickness – all are stored in the body: the struggle to earn a living, to survive in another country, to build a community and much more. The work shows how systems and structures can either lighten these burdens or make them heavier, especially for those who have to overcome multiple obstacles in order to simply belong, survive and thrive.
Thanks to Sonja Baumel, Dana Haire & Martina Bucci