Review / Workshop Pieter Boons (Heimat): Gone Girl

Gone Girl – a reference to the 2014 film of the same name by David Fincher and the recent death of Queen Fabiola – was the impetus for nine jewellery designers to brainstorm during four days on concepts such as ‘time’, ‘transience’ and the ‘preservability’ of jewels. Could you define the ‘preservability’ of jewels? What effect does time have on these ‘things’, on jewels? And especially, how do you create a presentation that sets out this theme clearly? The link with the preservability of consumer goods in night shops and supermarkets was soon made. Vegetables, fruit, biscuits and wrappings formed the display of a (temporary) two-hour exhibition. Conceptual, and visually preservable. It became a play on materials, manners, things. Styling vs scenography, form vs contents. Or, how do concept and scenography form and materials work together in an exhibition that is ‘best by …’?

Workshop leader: Pieter Boons
Students and alumni of St Lucas Antwerp: Annelies Weinberger, Charlotte Haentjens, Feliz Lathouwers, Niels Van de Wouwer, Fan Wang, Ann- Kathrin Hartel, Lars Matthijssen, Shana Teugels, Leonie Persijn

With thanks to Pieter Boons & Heimat, project space, Eliaertsstraat 16, Antwerp.