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The Paris-based artist MIA GOSSET works with metal to create jewelry and tchotchkes, and has recently garnered attention for her pieces worn by Rick Owens and Lady Gaga.

"I studied clothing at Duperré, but I didn’t see myself working in fashion. I worked a lot with sculptural clothing and had already begun to explore metal carcasses to structure my garments.

One day, I met someone who put some tools and wax in my hands; it was a shock for me. I felt like I had finally found my medium; it was a true revelation from the very first day I came into contact with the material and the production process, and since then, I haven’t stopped."

"I believe that the pleasure I take in working with metal comes primarily from having learned on my own and continuing to find solutions independently. I struggle with studies and constraints, and taking this path towards this practice is surely synonymous with freedom for me. No one tells me how or what to do; every decision and desire to test new techniques is thus emancipating.

I work a lot with bronze and brass; I like the idea that it can create a kind of convergence between my objects and the field of sculpture, but I particularly love silver. There is a softness in silver that makes it tender to work with—hammering, welding, or polishing—and then there’s that gray that always patinas perfectly over time, the angles that wear down from friction. There is a duality in the fragility and permanence of silver that I adore."

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Kiff Slemmons (American, born in 1944)

1994

Object Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States