Arijana Gadžijev - Slovenian Jewelry Week
Arijana Gadžijev
Designer biography:
Arijana Gadžijev is Slovenian textile artist, designer, and assistant professor at the Department of Textile and Clothing Design at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana. In her home studio, she creates small, sustainable, handmade textile artworks and textile jewellery that reflect respect for textile and artistic crafts. By combining manual and digital design techniques, an eclectic mix of materials, shapes, colours, and her own patterns, her work explores themes such as nature conservation, cultural heritage, and social inclusion. She participates in solo and group exhibitions both in Slovenia and internationally, and has received national and international awards for her work. She is a member of the international platform for contemporary artistic jewellery Klimt02 and actively exhibits her textile jewellery collections at international jewellery weeks and exhibitions globally.
Collection concept
The Kaleidoscope bubble textile jewellery collection consists of geometric objects of kaleidoscopic shapes and dynamic patterns, whose rainbow colours flow, connect, break and burst like soap bubbles upon contact with other matter. Each one is a unique world of thought, our inner energy, which represents the uniqueness of every human mind and emphasizes the importance of neurodiversity. The collection, digitally printed with the author’s patterns, is complemented by embroidered and sewn-in elements of luminescent thread, which emits energy in the form of light in the dark when previously exposed to UV rays. Handmade fabric jewellery is light and soft, consisting of a bracelet and brooches, which, in addition to being worn on the body, can be placed in the interior as independent spatial elements. The collection is accompanied by three art videos produced by the creative audiovisual studio Dedo Ciego.
