Qiuwen (Luna) Lyu

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I use jewellery as an interactive art medium to activate thoughts and talks towards the current society, focusing on the conceptual and symbolic nature of jewellery to create wearable artefacts/sculptures that act as the critique on contemporary values. To reframe what jewellery can be, I incorporate interdisciplinary methodologies into my design practice, making jewellery beyond the limit of scale, materials and ways of wearing.

I use jewellery as an interactive art medium to activate thoughts and talks towards the cur...

I got my inspiration from the film Downsizing and envisioned a future two thousand years from now: In 4024, a bioengineering technology can shrink human to only 15cm in height to reduce the consumption of food and energy, and their possessions are 11 times larger in size. In an archaeological activity, a collection of jewellery from 2024 AD was unearthed, which was too giant for them to wear. The wearer feels powerful and insignificant simultaneously. Will this non-anthropocentric future overthrow the civilisation of mankind and topple the value of everything?

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I got my inspiration from the film Downsizing and envisioned a future two thousand years from now: In 4024, a bioengineering technology can shrink human to only 15cm in height to reduce the consumption of food and energy, and their possessions are 11 times larger in size. In a...

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