Dana Hakim

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I see jewellery as an intimate art medium which can offer a dimension of personal relationship

between the jewellery, the wearer and the viewer. In my work I ask questions about the

reality in which we live in, about our everyday life and about the interaction between us and

our society.

I wish the way we grasp reality will be not taken for granted. I believe there are always diverse

prisms of view and perception, things are laying beneath the surface, and unveiling them is an

eye-opening experience I strive to create.

Familiar everyday commodities are often in use in my work. I transform them and  giving them a

new meaning which offers the opportunity for a critical reflection. I choose these objects

because they are loaded with meaning and have a cultural or associative presence.

In my work, i enjoy using the tactility and materialistic presence as the carrier of the meaning

and as the embodiment of the object’s essence.