We are contemporary

1.

Minou Lejeune

My inspiration came from today's digitizing. The digital is volatile and can be quickly deleted. Once it is deleted, it can not be retrieved. however, I’m someone who wants to create something tangible.

I fear that in 100 years not much of this digital age will be left, which makes people no longer able to empathize with this digital age. I find it very interesting and beautiful if you can empathize with a time that has been elapsed, and so I made this jewel for the future. This jewel holds printed facebook pages, text messages, e-mails and tweets. I think these are daily rituals, but beautiful to preserve for the future. Give this Jewel on to your daughter and your daughter back to her daughter, so it arrives in the future. The longer the jewel keeps alive, the more interesting and more beautiful it becomes.

2.

Monique Schraven

LIVE-LIKE

Nowadays, humans are constantly busy with updating there status and personal social network.

Everybody wants to be "liked", "followed" and have comments with no negative thougts.

But in fact, all of this isn't very social and "like-ly" and people aren't really busy with being social

and have contact with friends. 

Why don't we have a smal window, to update your're social status/photo's/stuff, and be liked

in real life, so people on the street you don't even know can "like" your window and comment

on your last update.

Now you can be social, up to date and liked all day long without your smartphone or tablet, glued

to your hand.

3.

Anke Huyben

My take on contemporary jewellery is about that thing that is going on in the world these days;

'the economic crisis'.
 The value of gold is currently very high

 because the people are hoarding it.
They want to keep the value close to themselves.
With this piece of jewellery, one can keep their valuables even closer.
The injection needle is filled with gold filings,

 so instead of keeping it in a safe,

 you can directly inject it into your veins.

4.

Anne Eissen

Sysiphos

In contrast to the perception that contemporary means fast, digital and short-lived, there is another one, which is all about craftsmanship and staying busy by making things with your own hands.

Thereby objects are able to constantly change under your influence.

I enjoy having this influence and stay close to my work. Even if it is a never ending business sometimes.

5.

Jessie Beurskens

It’s all about doing things easy and fast; we just take – away.

Inspired by the fact that nowadays everything has to be easy and fast, especially when it comes to our food, I made a DIY kit to create your own piece of jewellery, based on easy take away meals.

6.

Julia Fischer

Thinking about contemporary,

I think about time.

Time is relative.

Time comes and goes.

So do things.

I had the idea to transform material into a jewellery

that just has a temporary relation to the body.

7.

Sangji Yun

I made a brooch.

It is an intersection of two circles.

When I read a book, I found a very interesting sentence.

“The contemporary jewellery is about this time” it said. Because the word 'Contemporary' means now.  

It plays with now.

It gave me inspiration for my jewellery.

One circle of this brooch means the 'past', and the other circle means the 'future'.

 Therefore, the intersection part(middle) is the 'present'. 

The present lives between the past and the future. The intersection part of this brooch reflects the present state of a person. This brooch tells where I am now and what I see now.

8.

Lea Haueisen

My piece of jewellery is literally a statement. A statement concerning all the discussions about a proper name for what jewellery designers create today. In my opinion, the quotation by Benjamin Lignel strikes the crucial point of the problems in giving jewellery a name nowadays, as there are several new terms as author jewelry, studio jewelry and contemporary jewellery. However they all describe at least one thing: jewellery. If they are made by hand, mass produced or if their designers are only known by a few selected people.

Furthermore, not only, we need to determine a common name, but we also have to think of new manners to promote our collections. Therefor I've chosen for the image of a facebook status, since it symbolize one of the most popular ways to communicate today. Though it also stands for the fast momentariness of the internet.

By chosing for an almost ancient craft - embroidery - I want to highlight those opposites of consistency and fugaciousness and maybe create an intersection between them.

A statement can be a jewelry.

And a jewelry is surely a statement.