An ultimate exhibition of contemporary jewellery titled "Vanity" by Agapi Smpokou will be completed by AS Gallery-Agapi Smpokou in Heraklion, Crete.
After five and a half full and creative years of AS Gallery, this circle closes and opens up a new one with the same enthusiasm. That's why we invite all of you who have contributed to us over the years, the friends of AS Gallery to a farewell closing party on the opening of the exhibition.
"Vanity", is an exhibition with which Agapi Smpokou has taken part in major exhibitions of contemporary jewellery such as: Joya Barcelona 2017, Sierrad (2017) Amsterdam, Author (2018) Bucharest and Athens Jewellery Week (2018) Benaki Museum.
Vanity
Jewellery = diamonds
What is jewellery? This is a question that I ask myself since I began selling jewellery. People are in need of being confirmed by being part of a group, or a social status, be conformed with symbols of beauty of our western society, be comforted of its value.
The customer / viewer/ wearer is choosing the diamond regarding the value. Diamonds have value because of their durability, clarity and strength.
These qualities imply the human need to overcome the fear of dead. It feels that the human kind will achieve immortality by wearing diamonds. When you wear it, on one hand you feel that you become immortal, and on the other hand you get trapped by the fear of losing it, thus loosing the gained immortality. The choice of diamonds immediately makes you vain. You feel deathless by owning and wearing them.
I question the durability and the value of diamonds by working with them in porcelain, a material that has fragility. A conflicting material is presented in 3diamentional form and a kind of linear shape on my work too. The repentance is the need, the vanity of having it, owning it, of being immortal.
What is jewellery? Everyday I ask myself since I began selling jewellery. People are in need of being confirmed by being part of a group, or a social status, be conformed with symbols of beauty of our western society, be comforted of its value.
The customer / wearer is choosing the diamond regarding the value. Diamonds have value because of their durability, clarity and strength.
These qualities imply the human need to overcome the fear of dead. It feels that the human kind will achieve immortality by wearing diamonds. The choice of diamonds immediately makes you vain.
I question the durability and the value of diamonds by working with them in porcelain, a material that has fragility. A conflicting material is presented in 3diamentional form and a kind of linear shape on my work. The repentance is the need, the vanity of having it, owning it, of being immortal.
