Bio:
Mima was born and raised in Macedonia, where she has discovered the passion for the crafts and began her career, and continued to study in Italy, Germany and USA and further develop herself as an artist. Each new study and place thought her how to approach the world of jewelry differently. At the Institute of Anthropology she researched jewelry as part of material culture; as a jewelry designer she treated it as a powerful tool of adornment; and finally during her MFA in Jewelry and Objects for the first time she handled jewelry as an art form conveying various concepts and ideas.
She has worked on jewelry creations from crafted filigree to digital designs, as well as conceptual open-ended ones that explore various perspectives of relationships we build with each other, through or with objects that surround us. Her work has been exhibited in numerous shows among which was the Smithsonian Craft Show in Washington DC, than Savannah, Taipei, Atlanta, Berlin, Jerusalem; and has been published in Time Magazine, The Guardian, Huffington Post... Her most significant works include a research in tactility as well as working for a company that launched modular smart bands.
Statement:
I find jewelry fascinating in the number of ways it can speak. Unlike other art forms, with its function to be worn on the body, it is never finished with the story it tells. It starts with the maker’s idea, a concept waiting to find its best material to be presented in. It takes it shape with delicate choice for a suitable technique, and it is always an intriguing process until it finds it begins to show the designers thoughts. The beauty of making jewelry is that the dialogue that it is conveying never actually stops. With every new wearer, every new setting, and every new night out in town – it can act as a chameleon and adapt to wearer’s life with a new narrative.
Mima was born and raised in Macedonia, where she has discovered the passion for the crafts and began her career, and continued to study in Italy, Germany and USA and further develop herself as an artist. Each new study and place thought her how to approach the world of jewelry differently. At the Institute of Anthropology she researched jewelry as part of material culture; as a jewelry designer she treated it as a powerful tool of adornment; and finally during her MFA in Jewelry and Objects for the first time she handled jewelry as an art form conveying various concepts and ideas.
She has worked on jewelry creations from crafted filigree to digital designs, as well as conceptual open-ended ones that explore various perspectives of relationships we build with each other, through or with objects that surround us. Her work has been exhibited in numerous shows among which was the Smithsonian Craft Show in Washington DC, than Savannah, Taipei, Atlanta, Berlin, Jerusalem; and has been published in Time Magazine, The Guardian, Huffington Post... Her most significant works include a research in tactility as well as working for a company that launched modular smart bands.
Statement:
I find jewelry fascinating in the number of ways it can speak. Unlike other art forms, with its function to be worn on the body, it is never finished with the story it tells. It starts with the maker’s idea, a concept waiting to find its best material to be presented in. It takes it shape with delicate choice for a suitable technique, and it is always an intriguing process until it finds it begins to show the designers thoughts. The beauty of making jewelry is that the dialogue that it is conveying never actually stops. With every new wearer, every new setting, and every new night out in town – it can act as a chameleon and adapt to wearer’s life with a new narrative.
