Laxy
Lanxin Zhang is a Chinese contemporary jewelry artist currently based in Birmingham, UK. She graduated from the School of Jewellery at Birmingham City University. By integrating jewelry into daily rituals, she interrogates the social dimensions of the body activity. Zhang’s work involves the fields of behavioral and body science, exploring new ways for wearers to interact with the objects they adorn, and bringing beauty into creations.
The three pieces from the jewellery collection Intimate Touch represent different gestures of sliding or working in front of a touch screen. It touches on the distance from the body in the daily trivial work scenes, which is formed in the long-term hand preparation gestures and waiting in reality and virtuality, preserving the traces and physical memories left on the body by the fleeting moments of activity in a tangible gesture.
These works are also an exploration of how materials and gestures carry meaning during London Craft Week, as it transforms ordinary modern actions into tangible crafts, captures almost invisible moments in contemporary life, and acts as a carrier of emotions and memories in our daily lives. It connects the past and the present, echoing the focus of the exhibition, which is how craft preserves the intangible and creates connections across time.
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