Hannah Joris
“Via the body. A research on the expression of the human condition through body fragmentation – jewelry art as contemporary relics”
This research is an investigation on how the fragmentation of the body can express challenges we are confronted with in our contemporary Western society, through the media of contemporary jewelry art.
Therefore the meaning of the fragmented body in our society and in anatomical relics, and the body’s response to corporeal representations are examined by means of artistic work based on the (de-)forming of the human body. Using contemporary jewelry art intensifies this confrontation through its direct connection with the human body (wearablilty) and the use of a wide 
range of organic materials, expressing bodily features.
The aim is to develop an artistic body of work that creates possibilities and opportunities to address challenges and problems concerning our mentalities and society, in order to confront, destabilize and evoke critical and collective thought and discussion.
Promotor: Prof. dr. Barbara Baert (K.U.Leuven) & dr. Bert Willems (UHasselt & MAD-faculty)
Date: october 2009- september 2013
Artistic research | Jewelry & objects, drawings