Eleonora Radke

(Germany, 1996 – BA-student New Object Craft Design, Peter Behrens School of Arts/Hochschule Düsseldorf)

necklace Schmatzen, 2021

acrylic glass, acryl, brass, cord
190 x 100 mm (oval)
120 mm (circle)
edition of two

Trophy commission for Lauren Kalman, recipient of the Françoise van den Bosch Award 2020 and presented on November 14, 2021 during the symposium Designing Adornment, Questioning Beauty at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

It is unusual to place jewellery inside the mouth. The trophy for the Françoise van den Bosch Award recipient Lauren Kalman is about the sounds that occur while wearing a piece like hers. It visualizes the sounds of bodily functions. Schmatzen is a German word which means ‘to produce sounds by closing and sudden opening of moist lips and tongue’. There is no direct English translation of this word and the German definition describes the meaning of the word better. This is sandblasted on the trophy: ‘Laute hervorbringen, die durch Schließen und plötzliches Öffnen der nassen Lippen und der Zunge entstehen.’

photos symposium: Ernst van Deursen