Dania Chelminsky

A cabinet of curiosities, Installation

“ …– the rarity of an object in the cult of curiosities is merely sketched in at first, in virtual time as it were, taking on its true meaning or its reality, only once it is placed in this drawer or that, on this shelf or in that hidden cabinet.”

Walter Bejamin

I set up a cabinet of curiosities, remnants of time.

Pieces of jewelry I created over the last 20 years, pieces I have exhibited and ones I have started and not finished. Altered and found objects and items collected from nature over the years.

In an intuitive arrangement, I dismantle series, break down an internal and familiar order, and create disorder that allows for new encounters between elements and new meanings.

This kind of dialogue between the pieces in this cabinet of curiosities, relates to the relationship between me and the world around me—between a sense of continuity, an order and its opposite: discontinuity, a sense of fragmentation and chaos in the external world.

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Installation size: 420 x 80 cm