Jewellery designer Naomi Filmer makes breathing visible
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Naomi Filmer
After studying 3D design, Naomi Filmer (Londen 1969) trained herself in various crafts (she’s a silversmith, goldsmith, can do metal work) and specialised in jewellery design at the Royal College of Art in Londen. In the 1990s she made jewellery for well known British fashion designers like Hussein Chalayan and Alexander McQueen.
Her work is sculptural and often made for areas of the body, such as the armpit or the mouth that traditionally are not emphasized with jewellery. Sometimes Filmer uses ephemeral material like ice, glass or chocolate. Filmers work is neither narrative nor decorative; it’s meaning lies in the special relationship with the body that is wearing it. -
Breathing Volume
Breathing Volume is a series of 3 plaster sculptures - Gather, Accumulate, Absorb – and one bronze called: Let Go. All four sculptures articulate the area around the mouth, chin and neck of the human body. This is an area that changes continuously; when you walk, move your head – it changes even when you do nothing. Just breathe – in and out - and you’ll swallow the space.
The theme of the sculptures for The Art of Fashion is recurrent in Filmer’s work. She always reflects on the relationship between inside and outside; positive and negative space and the presence or absence of the body. With this theme, Filmer seems to follow a tradition in art that started with the Italian Futurists at the beginning of the 20th century. Like Filmer, the futurists were anxious to visualise movement in space. See for instance the sculptures by Umberto Boccioni. -
Glass sphere
In 2007 Naomi Filmer presented Lenticular 3 Shoulder Lens at the Out of the Ordinary exhibition in the Victoria & Albert Museum in Londen. Her work was exhibited in the context of seven other artists in whose work craft is a central issue.
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Dancing with craftsmen
In the interview, Naomi Filmer compares the creation of an object in collaboration with a craftsman to a dance. Her main theme, the relationship between the body and the space, can be discussed in similar terms: interaction and dance. The methaphor is closely related to Filmers personal life. Since her early childhood, she has been a dancer and she gave up a professional career as a dancer only to become an artist.
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Errors and mistakes
An ‘error' is a deviation from accuracy or correctness. A ‘mistake' is an error caused by a fault: the fault being misjudgment, carelessness, or forgetfulness. For a person who is interested in unexpected and unpredictable situations, mistakes might be what makes life worthwhile.
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Jewellery designer Naomi Filmer makes breathing visible
The jewellery that Naomi Filmer designs is extraordinary. With her designs, she investigates the boundaries of the human body and limits of the materials. In this interview, Filmer explains that her work is not just ‘adornment’ of the body; jewellery and accessories become interesting when they visualize life and give a glimpse of the way a person could move his way through life.
This video is part of the The Art of Fashion exhibition, on view until January 10th 2010 at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
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Camera: Nanko Goeting
Editing: Jorrit Spoelstra at Photoboothworks
