EXHIBITION SNOW WHITE
client: Swarovski Kristallwelten Wattens/ Tirol
Idea and exhibition design focusing on coldness/ jewelry/ death/ beauty. For Swarovski Crystals. There is a catalogue.
In the center there are six glass coffins arranged in a snowflake pattern. Inside costumes and jewelry of famous film divas are displayed in such a way as hint a body. In the glass cabinets along the wall metaphors of death are represented by combs, bodice and iron shoes of the stepmother. The room is filled by the whisper of statements on beauty and death reflecting European intellectual history.
Idea:
The deceased Snow White ambodies the dream of everlasting beauty resisting even death. In death, she is as beautiful as in life, " as if she was sleeping". Death is the keeper of her beauty: it is freezing, conserving, halting time at Snow Whites moment of full blossom. What would she have become without her untimely provisionary death? Probably forever a maid to dwarfs, without a chance to be discovered by a prince, notwithstanding desired by one. But stiff in a glass coffin, like a piece of jewelry in a showcase, she was bound to be found by the prince. Snow White resembles an object trouvé, mourned upon dwarfs and animals, and as such impossible to miss by the prince! It shows her royal descent infinitely more than lying around in seven miniature beds.
Diamonds are forever, we are told. Can jewelry triumph over death, decay and oblivion? The sheer possibility may turn jewelry into relics, objects of desire ans voyeurism, something Snow White obviously does not object to.
In the center there are six glass coffins arranged in a snowflake pattern. Inside costumes and jewelry of famous film divas are displayed in such a way as hint a body. In the glass cabinets along the wall metaphors of death are represented by combs, bodice and iron shoes of the stepmother. The room is filled by the whisper of statements on beauty and death reflecting European intellectual history.
Idea:
The deceased Snow White ambodies the dream of everlasting beauty resisting even death. In death, she is as beautiful as in life, " as if she was sleeping". Death is the keeper of her beauty: it is freezing, conserving, halting time at Snow Whites moment of full blossom. What would she have become without her untimely provisionary death? Probably forever a maid to dwarfs, without a chance to be discovered by a prince, notwithstanding desired by one. But stiff in a glass coffin, like a piece of jewelry in a showcase, she was bound to be found by the prince. Snow White resembles an object trouvé, mourned upon dwarfs and animals, and as such impossible to miss by the prince! It shows her royal descent infinitely more than lying around in seven miniature beds.
Diamonds are forever, we are told. Can jewelry triumph over death, decay and oblivion? The sheer possibility may turn jewelry into relics, objects of desire ans voyeurism, something Snow White obviously does not object to.
