//A pre and post apocalyptic reliquary of Jewellery and objects//
Tues 4th-Sun 9th August,
10-19:00 hrs
Craft Central Showcase gallery
33-35 St John's Square,
London EC1M 4DS
Jewellery artists Billie M Vigne and Sandra Tepla present a pop up shop of BMV and Tepla Jewellery, exclusively unveiling new works concerned with imminent nuclear apocalypse. Both artists share a distaste for wasteful consumerism and a visual affinity with tribal and ethnic jewellery; their works play with the viewer’s ability to place an object in a particular culture or point in time.
“In a time of potential environmental crisis, of huge unrest in the Middle East, of discord between nuclear powers, our generation doesn’t seem worried about the Nuclear Bomb. We are here to sound the TICK-TOCK of the Doomsday clock.”
Billie M Vigne presents X: The Bomb, the Whale and the Phallus, the first piece from new series M.A.D. modelled on Tamil Nadu marriage necklaces. X is a neckpiece and nuclear dowry bequeathed to a future generation. Intricately hand fabricated in brass, bronze, copper and silver, it tells the murky tale of an unstable nightmare-scape in which the whales know and wait; on the cusp of nuclear warfare, the phallus rises and the bomb is dropped.
Sandra Tepla will unveil a new bi-part series of works, Part 1: Human Impulse sees her innately dystopian work grow into painstakingly sewn, futuristic textile structures, exploring empowerment/dominance in a pre-apocalyptic ‘rise before the fall’ Part 2: Someone Else’s Memory feels its way through a nuclear landscape, scavenging for scrap metal and curious objects, building alternate permutations of this reality.
