Zoé Kiner-Wolff

Zoé Kiner-Wolff is a French artist whose practice centres on the body and appearance, exploring the transformative potential of jewellery and adornment. Kiner-Wolff creates jewellery, masks, costumes and objects that express the desire to change the body by wearing (an)other skin. Her practice creates space for encounters between human, animal, plant and inanimate bodies, each bearing its own identity and nature. By wearing adornment, she seeks to metamorphose the body and explore a new embodied relationship with the world. The act of wearing a mask fulfils a dream of becoming someone else, something other, or another being, and of seeing with different eyes. Recently Kiner-Wolff began collaborating with artist and glassmaker François Briand. Their practices, glass and jewellery, combine to create hybrid adornments and sculptures that sit somewhere between animal, plant, machine and object.