Nu Jade | 2017 - 19

Keywords: jade, motherboards, amulet, industrial waste

Work exhibited: ALCOVA, IT (2018), Droog Design, NL (2018), Kunstnerforbundet, NO (2019), Pinakothek der Moderne, DE (2019), National Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Trondheim, NO (2018), RIAN Designmuseum, SE (2019), Objectspace, NZ (2020), Schmuck 2022, DE.

Jade ornaments are worn in different cultures as a protection and to ward off the evil. The apotropaic function associated with jade, a stone extracted from the earth and revered for thousands of years - is here distorted: on closer inspection, the stone-like material is rendered in compressed shreds of discarded motherboards. The works reflect on the materiality of jade: from notions of protection to concerns towards personal and environmental health. Nu Jade poses questions about environmental safety and e-waste processing.