Project: Grotesque Beauty
Grotesque Beauty
The grotesque is producing responses that range from carnal attraction to disgust, is intoxicating and anxiety-inducing. It makes people feel unsettled but that’s why they are attractive.
Sometimes I see beauty in things that other people find strange or are even repulsed by. I become fascinated when there is something you do not want to see and the feeling you get when you do not want to look at something, yet you still do. My jewellery deals with the tension that lies between attraction and repulsion.
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Concept
In my exploration of the tension between attraction and repulsion, my jewellery challenges conventional notions of beauty. Drawing inspiration from trypophobia and the grotesque, I delve into textures and movements that evoke discomfort, such as worms and barnacles, transforming these elements into a new aesthetic.
People love expensive luxury and to follow the mainstream. The definition of beauty in traditional society has always been noble to lowly. However, does expensive mean beautiful?
This is a subversion of the ideology of taste, a celebration of grotesque aesthetic.
Inspired by Trypophobia, researching texture and movement, which people generally find disgusting, such as worms and barnacles, reinterpreted and translated it into a new aesthetic of contemporary fashion using variations on colour. By deconstructing and reshaping these disgusting elements are combined into expensive and beautiful materials.
What if I take elements of the grotesque and express them in a luxurious way? Should the piece be classified as disgusting or beautiful? From a distance it looks appealingly golden, but as you get closer you realise it’s a collection of gross element.
Objective
By reinterpreting these unsettling forms with luxurious materials and rich colour variations, I subvert traditional ideals of beauty and luxury. The result is a collection that appears opulent from a distance but reveals its provocative, grotesque essence upon closer inspection. Through this juxtaposition, my work questions whether beauty can coexist with the grotesque and invites viewers to reconsider the boundaries of taste and the nature of luxury.
