One and the Other: Two of a Kind | Katja Prins

At the core of my work lies a personal fascination for the inter-relationship (and interdependecy even) between our fragile human bodies and our (technical) surroundings. By reading and researching my topics of interest, I have become aware that technology has always been our way to survive in this world and in order to survive we have been adapting our environment to our needs and by now we are adapting and enhancing our bodies and even merging it with our technologies. Will this bring us a utopia or a dystopia? It's the ambivalence, the contradictions, the thin line between good and bad, improvement and danger, the uncanny valley of familiar and unknown, what always intrigued me and what I've been trying to express in my jewellery.

-Katja Prins