Gold Jewelry — WUMIANSTUDIO

我一直希望用首饰艺术的语言去和中国当下最真实最普遍的商品化首饰进行一次对话。这件作品则是与“中国大妈”抢购的金首饰的一次对话。

当我来到这些金首饰被生产出来的工厂，工人们小心翼翼地回收着破旧不堪却竟能提炼出数以百万的黄金的地毯、手套、工服和内衣,它们与被生产的、被抢购的金首饰毫无差别，都是承载黄金价值的容器。

无论是在加工厂里还是在首饰盒里，无论是严密的安检还是无所不用其极的回收，无论是做成了戒指还是手镯，无论是雕花还是刻字，在这个语境中，人们做的所有事只关于一件事，那就是黄金本身。

It is always my hope to build up a dialogue between the contemporary jewelry art and the typical commercial jewelry products in China. Therefore, this work tries to talk to the panic purchase of gold products by the Chinese Da'ma.

In the gold factory, used gloves, uniforms, underclothes and carpets are all carefully collected by the workers for gold recycle. In their view, there is no difference between all the wastes in the manufacturing process and raw gold. Therefore, I would argue that the manufacturing wastes and gold products can be same regarded as the container of the materiality of gold.

In this context, no matter in the gold factory or in the jewelry box, under strict security check or during waste recycle, made into ring or shaped into bracelet, with flower or lettering, all we have done here is about one pure thing “GOLD”.

︎《金首饰》pdf
︎《Gold jewelry》pdf