Linking Tale

Veronika Fabian,

1 June - 8 July, 2023

VERONIKA FABIAN | LINKING TALE

Linking Tale brings us a series of works from one of the world's most noted emerging jewellery artists, Veronika Fabian. Featuring important works from her series Once Upon A Time, this exhibition explores notions of the handmade in an era of mass production, and the place of individual identity in late capitalism and current socio-cultural trends.

The series consists of large metal chains created from smaller ones by soldering the individual chains together into ‘chain sheets’ that are flattened in the rolling mill and then formed further in a specific sequence of steps; by pressing and hammering them into matching half chain link shapes which are finally soldered together. The intensively hand-crafted 'big links' repeat the form of the industrial chains, creating a tension between the mass-produced and the handcrafted. Veronika’s work simultaneously celebrates and questions the supremacy of uniqueness over the output of production lines, commenting on our dilemmas of the 21st century.





TR1006LA-424-4074 / Once upon a time, 2023, Soldered, flattened, pressed,
silver plated, partly oxidised brass chains

Work from Linking Tale

TR1006LA-424-4074 / Once upon a time by Linking Tale TR1006LA-424-4074 / Once upon a time, 2023, Soldered, flattened, pressed,
silver plated, partly oxidised brass chains

TR1506LA-553-3178 / Once upon a time by Linking Tale TR1506LA-553-3178 / Once upon a time, 2022, Soldered, flattened, pressed,
etched brass chains
TR1506-377-1134 by Linking Tale TR1506-377-1134, 2021, Soldered, flattened, pressed,
silver plated, partly oxidised brass chains

CU10TR-558-5168 / Once upon a time by Linking Tale CU10TR-558-5168 / Once upon a time, 2023, Soldered, flattened, pressed,
silver plated, oxidised brass chains

CU10-583-3781 by Linking Tale CU10-583-3781, 2022, Soldered, flattened, pressed,
silver plated, oxidised brass chains

FIG10-328-3010 by Linking Tale FIG10-328-3010, 2023, Soldered, flattened, pressed,
silver plated, oxidised brass chains

FIG10-48-406 by Linking Tale FIG10-48-406, 2023, Soldered, flattened, pressed,
silver plated, oxidised brass chains
CU10-60-469 by Linking Tale CU10-60-469, 2023, Soldered, flattened, pressed,
silver plated, oxidised brass chains

TR1506-92-245 by Linking Tale TR1506-92-245, 2023, Soldered, flattened, pressed,
silver plated, partly oxidised brass chains
TR1006LA-56-462 by Linking Tale TR1006LA-56-462, 2023, Soldered, flattened, pressed,
silver plated, partly oxidised brass chains
Pendants by Linking Tale Pendants, 2023, Soldered, flattened, pressed,
silver plated, oxidised brass chains

Artists involved