Decouverte : Nelli Tanner
Une ombre, une trace, un souvenir, évanescent, en pointillé … dans le métal ….. c’est l’impression laissée (dans le métal) par les titres des bijoux de Nelli Tanner : « Traces », « Shades », « Light to Carry », « Staying in the shadows », « Covered by snow » ….. une attente blanche depuis la Finlande, forte de sa délicatesse …. comme des traces d’oiseau laissées dans la première neige, comme l’écriture d’un souvenir, en creux, en braille ….
« Starting point for my working is in everyday life. I make long detours by listening stories on my way home on the bus, finding beauty in broken objects, walking in my surroundings where there is wood and forgotten man made marks on the landscape.
I carry camera and sketchbook with me all the time. I stop my walk on the street to take a snapshot of a moment which otherwise will be forgotten or unseen. I try to catch something I don’t understand or makes me troubled.
I collect other people’s photos, characters of people, make small stories of these with materials to my working table. This transfers into jewellery through a process-based working.
Sometimes jewellery is only about a small hole on a white paper. What remains is the memory of the act. «
Nelli Tanner – Brooch: Translations II 2012 – Silver
Nelli Tanner Brooch: Traces of I 2012 Birch, silver
Nelli Tanner Brooch: Shades of II 2012 Silver
Nelli Tanner Brooch: Translations III 2012 Silver
Nelli Tanner Brooch: Tuomas 2012 Silver
Nelli Tanner Brooch: Huurre | White frost 2009 Silver, aluminium
Nelli Tanner Brooch: Traces of II 2012 Birch, silver (all photos: Kimmo Heikkilä)
