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Geraldline Juarez is a Mexican and Swedish visual artist. She likes to use time-based media, sculpture and performance to consider the materials, histories, technics, politics and economics shaping the dominant narratives and contexts in contemporary media culture.

I am intrigued by one of her 2019 “collection”, here are 4 of the pieces she created known as “non-functional jewelry” mainly made with porcelain, silver clay re-materialized from photographic waste and broken screens from smartphones. The ironic property allows us to reflect upon the durability and add-values of jewelry.

“Jewels are ornaments but also markers of time, what kind of memories will these jewels evoke in the future?” – Geraldline Juarez

Screenware is a method for glazing ceramics using refuse from smartphones and computer LCD’s screens as glass former.