Challenging Jewellery
Marilyn Volkman+
Year of birth: 1984
Place of birth: Corpus Christi, Texas USA
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Marilyn Volkman (1984, American) is an artist whose work is a constellation of hyperrealist performances and collaborations. Her practice incorporates the ubiquity of corporate aesthetics in critical culture, and forms a testing ground for transformation. Art objects constantly redefine our notions of value, and rather than upholding or supporting some external system of worth, Volkman's work operates as a continual, dialectic critique on these systems and – even - on itself. If anything can be seen as a universal value associated with art, it is this constant critical lens that focuses on redefinition and revolution.
Marilyn Volkman's (Corpus Christi, Texas USA, 1984) monolithic research work, EVERYTHING IS VALUES, restages the complex interactions between people and their values during the Challenging Jewellery MA programme. Drawing on methodologies from anthropology, auto-fiction and archiving, the work is at once a novel, a film, and a physical object, interrogating how communal ideals, failure, taste, money, scale, and jewellery interact in the collective search for inspiration and purpose.
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