“It is an elegant juxtaposition of aesthetics and cultural favour. Precious pearls, refined and cossetted, lying in or on the contradictory materiality of bone and hair – elemental, visceral, sanded and polished or combed and curled into items of paradoxical beauty.”
Sally Blundell
In this body of work Elfi Spiewack finds a completely new form language for the unusually combined - but in her eyes ‘not so different’ materials, bone, hair and pearls and challenges again preconceived definitions of preciousness and beauty.