Touch-Sensitive
This exhibition narrates the stories of people, their jewellery, and the artists behind the adornments. Touch鈥揝ensitive takes its idea from the word touch, reflecting the nature of jewellery 鈥� to be in contact with people.
Contact is both physical and spiritual, a delicate exchange of energy between individuals. Every piece of jewellery holds a unique story, capturing the experience and emotions of its creator throughout the creative process, from the conception to completion. Finally, there comes a moment when an adornment finds its new owner and the rest of the story is told by the wearer.
The exhibition features jewellery collections created by 23 artists from the Latvian Jewellery Art Association, alongside portraits of the models they selected. The artists have created jewellery for doctors, diplomats, philologists, painters, teachers, students, and even themselves, their relatives, and colleagues. In addition to the rich stories, the jewellery owners have shared their thoughts and feelings by answering to questions posed by the artists. Their responses, recorded in audio, reveal engaging and often unexpected perspectives on the relationship between jewellery and its wearers, shedding light on the many facets of their personalities. The exhibition space becomes filled with voices that were previously less familiar, or completely unknown and unheard. A selection of these insights is also published in the exhibition catalogue.
Through this intricate combination of expressive media, Touch-Sensitive offers an opportunity to discover or re-experience the enchanting power of jewellery in all of its traditional, modern, and innovative forms, diverse materials, and techniques.
The exhibition Touch-sensitive, held at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Riga (Latvian National Museum of Art) in spring 2024, has been an excellent example of fruitful cooperation between artists and the museum, and has earned us the honour of receiving the Latvian public media annual award, A Kilogram of Culture 2024. Now, in spring 2025, the Lithuanian audience will have an opportunity to discover more about contemporary jewellery art in Latvia. We would like to thank our colleagues from the Lithuanian National Museum of Art for making it possible to present the exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts and Design in Vilnius.
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This exhibition narrates the stories of people, their jewellery, and the artists behind the adornments. Touch鈥揝ensitive takes its idea from the word touch, reflecting the nature of jewellery 鈥� to be in contact with people.
Contact is both physical and spiritual, a delicate exchange of energy between individuals. Every piece of jewellery holds a unique story, capturing the experience and emotions of its creator throughout the creative process, from the conception to completion. Finally, there comes a moment when an adornment finds its new owner and the rest of the story is told by the wearer.
The exhibition features jewellery collections created by 23 artists from the Latvian Jewellery Art Association, alongside portraits of the models they selected. The artists have created jewellery for doctors, diplomats, philologists, painters, teachers, students, and even themselves, their relatives, and colleagues. In addition to the rich stories, the jewellery owners have shared their thoughts and feelings by answering to questions posed by the artists. Their responses, recorded in audio, reveal engaging and often unexpected perspectives on the relationship between jewellery and its wearers, shedding light on the many facets of their personalities. The exhibition space becomes filled with voices that were previously less familiar, or completely unknown and unheard. A selection of these insights is also published in the exhibition catalogue.
Through this intricate combination of expressive media, Touch-Sensitive offers an opportunity to discover or re-experience the enchanting power of jewellery in all of its traditional, modern, and innovative forms, diverse materials, and techniques.
The exhibition Touch-sensitive, held at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Riga (Latvian National Museum of Art) in spring 2024, has been an excellent example of fruitful cooperation between artists and the museum, and has earned us the honour of receiving the Latvian public media annual award, A Kilogram of Culture 2024. Now, in spring 2025, the Lithuanian audience will have an opportunity to discover more about contemporary jewellery art in Latvia. We would like to thank our colleagues from the Lithuanian National Museum of Art for making it possible to present the exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts and Design in Vilnius.
Artists on show
- Aleksandra Federika Krasti艈a
- Andris Lauders
- Anita Savicka
- Anna Fanigina
- Daria Svirel
- Ginta Gr奴be
- Gints Str膿lis
- Guntis Lauders
- J膩nis Brants
- J膩nis Vilks
- Jelizaveta Suska
- Laura Selecka
- Maija V墨tola-Zitmane
- M膩ris Auni艈拧
- Maris Sustins
- M膩r墨te Rudz膩te
- Paula Treimane
- P膿teris Ripa
- Rasma Pu拧pure
- Una Mikuda
- Valdis Broze
- Vladislavs 膶istjakovs
- Zane Vilka
