Projet réalisé par Patrick Schätti

Colletion Master Design Mode et Accessoires 2015

INSIDE OTHERNESS is a jewelry collection for men, ethnic-inspired, featuring large beads made of a resin mass containing used jewelry.

These beads are reworked in the mass, which shows the "inside" costume jewelry they contain, creating the surface the appearance of an unexpected and unpredictable pattern.

With this "fossilization", I reveal a hidden beauty, offering these jewels a second life.

This collection addresses the notions of nominal value and false:

First, with the use of second-hand jewelry. These jewels have a history, although it is not known to me, they are loaded symbolically, they have a "soul."

Although they report very little money, their former owners sell them, which proves that they believe the value on a basis other than the strict financial contribution.

Also, if the majority of these jewels are of questionable aesthetics, their formal choices or the materials they are made, the fact that the "fossil" in a pearl allows them to reveal a hidden beauty that drastically transforms the perception we have of their value.

The costume jewelery is fake label pinned to the body, as it is always in the quest of a resemblance, in imitation of the precious jewel.

Then, in the appearance of the collection, which is clearly of anthropological inspiration. The use of false through this roundabout aesthetic is this collection in another registry value. Falsely contextualized as objects inherited from history, they gain a symbolic value far beyond what would have been possible with a form less inspired by jewelry type, which effectively allows me to cover their tracks.

To a lesser extent, the use of the rope, aluminum, low economic value materials also allows to establish this work in its quest for transforming our perception of value. By reworking these materials, I bypass, as like "tradition" of contemporary jewelery, the usual conventions of preciousness in the finery.