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MARIA KONSCHAKE

BELGIUM, HASSELT

PXL-MAD SCHOOL OF ARTS

About Space and Identity is a visualisation of European cultural identity within the field of jewellery. It deals with the rooms, areas, zones and districts of European history and scrutinises the connection between jewellery and cultural identity. It shows not only the plurality of cultural memory but also the struggle between unity and diversity. Vergessen is a series of unwearable marble brooch objects that remind us of the things we have lost. Prägung is a single pendant that relates to the things that shape us. Abgrund is the abyss. It refers to the lowest point in European history. Abbild is our portrait. It visualises the permanence of the building as an observer of time. Hoffnung is hope: the positive, shared vision of a European future.