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01/06/2026

FRAGILITY, Marissa Saneholtz, USA

Brooch "The Price of Luxury", 2025
70 x 70 x 10 mm
Copper, vitreous enamel, fine silver foil, sterling silver, stainless steel
Fabrication, enameling, laser engraving

In this artwork I am referencing one of the historic purposes for enamels, to mimic gemstones and make color in jewelry more accessible while also considering the function of jewelry as a symbol of economic status. How much is too much? When does luxury become too excessive?
The country of The United States of America is on a precipice. The rich become richer, and the poor become poorer. Capitalism has run rampant and we are feeling the consequences. Some are flying in private jets while others work three jobs and are unable to feed their children. What will the breaking point be? Will these inequities continue to grow? The fragility of our economic system and humanity are being put to the test.

https://alliages.org/fragility-marissa-saneholtz-usa

31/05/2026

FRAGILITY, Norman Cherry, UK

Necklace "Clean Up Our Beaches", 2024
430Lx110Wx50D mm / 20 gr
Beachcombings (fishing net, plastic fibres, cotton fibres) and lint.
Textiles construction techniques including an idiosyncratic form of felting.

During the Time of Covid, and specifically when we were all subject to periods of Lockdown, I had plenty of time to reflect on how we live and what care we take of our planet. I resolved to spend the time in isolation creating new work which would not involve buying any new precious materials, only use items I already had in the studio. One of my many “boxes of stuff” contained the fruits of several years of beachcombing and another had many years’ worth of lint saved from my tumble dryer. Here were perfect examples, I thought, of materials which have already been jettisoned and now saved along with others which would normally be consigned to rubbish or added to one of my compost bins. Thus my series of Lockdown brooches was made between 2020 and 2022. Since then I have continued occasionally to use beachcombings, lint, and other materials thought of as detritus to create new works. This necklace, Clean up our Beaches, is a recent example.

https://alliages.org/fragility-norman-cherry-uk

30/05/2026

FRAGILITY, Ute van der Plaats, Belgium

Brooch "Heartbroken", 2025
125x90x40 mm / 99 gr
Porcelain, Silver, handmade screws and bolts, acrylic glass, steel brooch pins
Porcelain layering, lost wax method, screws and bolts making, hand sawing, engraving, riveting

My mother was born as a Berglanddeutsche, a German-speaking minority living in the Banat, a region that belongs to Romania since the end of the First World War. In 1944 the family fled from the Russian invasion to Germany. I never got to know my grandfather, as he died in a refugee camp in Germany, were the family ended up after a long trek. He had a heart attack but in the family it was always said that he had died of a broken heart because he was forced to leave his home to a country he didn’t know and the uncertainty of the fate of his son, a daughter and a grandchild who had stayed back in Romania. His son was in the army and was gone missing, his daughter was arrested by Russian soldiers and deported to the Donbas in Ukraine. Her two years old son was left behind alone at the house. My grandfather died without knowing that his son would never be found and that his daughter returned broken after 2 years of forced labor.
When I look at the world today I see that mankind hasn’t learned anything from history. War, destruction, suffering, inhumanity, dead, and torn up families are still a brutal reality for many people today. My heart can’t be other than be broken too.

https://alliages.org/fragility-ute-van-der-plaats-belgium

29/05/2026

FRAGILITY, Aimee Howard-Clinger, USA

Brooch "Fragments", 2025
78 x 50 x 15 mm / 200 gr
Silver, Copper, Enamel, Cement, Steel Pinback
Hand fabrication, enameling, casting

Fragments explores the fragility of culture and identity amid the fractures of political unrest. In recent years, escalating intolerance and prejudice—expressed through divisive rhetoric and acts of violence—have revealed how delicate our shared social fabric truly is.

These wearable sculptures embody that fragility through forms that appear fractured, broken, and isolated—remnants of something once whole. Each patterned fragment is reinforced with cement and small architectural remnants, evoking material pulled from rubble. This merging of destruction and beauty reflects our collective precarious existence—how easily what connects us can be shattered, yet how resilience and repair remain possible through awareness, empathy, and care.

https://alliages.org/fragility-aimee-howard-clinger-usa

28/05/2026

FRAGILITY, Kamile Staneliene, Lithuania

Brooch "Piece by piece", 2025
85x55x6 mm / 109 gr
Silver, tiles, stainless steel
Soldering
Photo : Tautvydas Stanelis

Sometimes in life, we face moments when we feel completely shattered and broken inside. There are times when we manage to stand up on our own and piece ourselves back together after difficult experiences, and other times when we need the help of others to heal. Painful moments inevitably leave scars, but despite everything, what truly matters is to survive, to move forward, and to leave those moments behind.

https://alliages.org/fragility-kamile-staneliene-lithuania

28/05/2026

FRAGILITY, Danni Xu, USA

Brooch "The Sky is a Tender Act", 2025
45x40x25 mm / 38 gr
Copper, vitreous enamel, brass, stainless steel, acrylic glass
Enamel, metal fabrication, laser cutting

This body of work emerges from a personal moment of reckoning—where fragility was not an abstract idea, but a lived, shifting condition I needed to face. These pieces trace the intimate terrain of vulnerability: the quiet, unstable edges between strength and collapse, between the self I present outwardly and the soft, unguarded interior that is usually unseen.
The materials themselves—metal, enamel, and laser-engraved marks—become a language for tending to this complicated state. I lean into color, play, and tactility as a counterweight to the heaviness of uncertainty. Each piece is a deliberate act of re-centering, a small wearable site where permeability, resilience, and doubt coexist.
In holding fragility with care rather than resistance, I invite the possibility that tenderness can be a resource—not in spite of vulnerability, but because of it.

https://alliages.org/fragility-danni-xu-usa

27/05/2026

FRAGILITY, Namkyung Lee, South Korea

Brooch "The Remaining Scenes", 2025
65x75x30 mm / 75 gr
Jesmonite, mother of pearl, pearl, sterling silver, stainless steel. Jesmonite is poured onto photo-engraved plates to cast and form each surface.

Brooch "The Scenery", 2025
60x80x35 mm / 66 gr
Jesmonite, mother of pearl, pearl, sterling silver, stainless steel. Jesmonite is poured onto photo-engraved plates to cast and form each surface.

The plate engraved with photographic images serves as a mold that forms a single surface (or wall). On top of this, Jesmonite (an acrylic resin) is poured to cast the photographic image. The photographic image plate created in this way has a blurry intagliated or embossed quality. It also has an appropriate ambiguity. By repeating this process, the images are layered to create a three-dimensional shape. These surfaces are interlocked to express the effect of depth.
‘The space where images are left’ is a concept that allows me to visualize my work comprehensively or connotatively. The images in the work begin from the everyday gaze and ordinary surroundings. The act of containing these relieves and avoids heavy or overly profound representations of reality. I attempt to shape a space of subjective taste by uncovering and emphasizing the small aesthetic details found in reality, and infusing them into my work.
While the specific spaces remain unclear, ultimately, a clear, physical visuality is produced. Additionally, this metaphorically suggests that the images remaining in one's mind are recalled, forgotten, and distorted repeatedly, in order to remain as beguiling as possible.

https://alliages.org/fragility-namkyung-lee-south-korea

27/05/2026

FRAGILITY, Cristina Celis, Mexico

Brooch "Last Breath", 20025
105 x 43 x 20 mm / 12.5 gr
High fire porcelain, cobalt oxide, glaze and sterling
Modeled porcelain, fired and glazed. Fabricated sterling broach back.

The Last Breath
Fragility is the threshold where strength meets its limit, where existence reveals its most honest form.
This work, made from weightless paper-thin ceramics, evokes a paradox: delicate yet tense, resilient yet on the verge of breaking. Its structure holds both power and precarity, mirroring the dual nature of all that endures.
Nature balances on invisible threads; one inaccurate movement, and the harmony shatters—echoing the fleeting moment between endurance and collapse, the quiet suspension of the last breath of life.

https://alliages.org/fragility-cristina-celis-mexico

26/05/2026

FRAGILITY, Sébastien Carré, France

Brooch “Cycle of water”, 2026
83 x 74 x 5 mm / 18 gr
Beads, glass beads, nylon, steel.
Beads weaving and pe**te stitch.
Photo : Milo Lee

Fragility of… The Cycle of Water

From the melting of the poles, to changing the power of the gulfstream

We are already starting to feel the impact of global warming with an increased power and frequency of rain and snowstorms.
While climate change sceptics were still saying a few years ago that we would not feel these impacts in our lifetime, leaving the problem to next generations to deal with; we can already start to see it now.

If we are not changing our relation to water quickly Humans would not be better than the frog in the fable with the pot, not realizing we are starting to make our planet boil.

https://alliages.org/fragility-sebastien-carre-france

26/05/2026

FRAGILITY, Anne Blok, Nethertlands

Brooch "On a summer day", 2025
50 x 455 x 1,6-3 mm / 14,4 gr
Miyuki delica beads 11/0 S/L and Tr
One-G thread, nylon
Safety pin, steel
Sewing beads, one by one
Photo : Stanislas Huaux

The fragile threads of memory
Life is fragile; it is temporary and precious. This brooch tells the story of a young life, life in the bud and the rose that never reached full bloom.
The brooch tells the story of a thirteen year-old girl. She loved the wind and the water. But how fragile is a human being in the face of the unpredictable forces of nature.
What remains are the fragile threads of memory.

https://alliages.org/fragility-anne-blok-netherlands

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