Nora Kovats (South Africa/Germany) - Plus One Collective
NORA KOVATS
Biography:
Nora studied contemporary jewellery design at Stellenbosch University near Cape Town. After graduating with her Masters in Visual Arts, Nora set up her own studio.
In 2016 she moved her atelier to Berlin, where she lived for four years, exhibiting both in Germany and internationally on a regular basis. Recently, Nora relocated to the picturesque town of Bamberg.
Collection Concept: Tidal Pool Creatures & Other Recollections
Kneeling at the edge of a tidal pool, I find myself drawn to its otherworldliness: Strange and intriguing precisely because it is just out of reach; a foreign environment to touch and observe but never belong. I find myself reaching for memories from a time when I lost myself in otherworlds more frequently, a time when recollections, experiences and wishful thinking merged. When the poetry of an idea, of a story, was more powerful than its claim to reality. To a time when paradise had not yet been driven from the face of the earth, but was still believed to be lingering somewhere on the fringes of the map, beyond this ocean or that mountain range.
This group of imaginary creatures has emerged from a fantastical microcosm where life has co-evolved in mysterious and fascinating ways, and where our constructed categories, our notions of entities with neat boundaries, are questioned. This is a merging of worlds, a botanical-animal-fungi-underwater hybrid tapestry of life, whose creatures are messengers weighed with distant memories of wonderment.
Neck piece, enamel on copper, smoky quartz, steel wire, oxidized silver, rubies & carnelian beads.
Pendant, object, blue enamel on copper, patinated silver, black uncut tourmaline.
Pendant, black and blue enamel on copper, patinated silver, black uncut tourmaline, black chord.
Pendant, black and blue enamel on copper, patinated silver, black uncut tourmaline, black chord.