Julia Boix-Vives’ work moves between sculpture, performance, and jewellery, engaging in a constant dialogue between forms, gestures, and sensory perceptions. Inspired by the ritual of a woman in front of her mirror, she combines beauty accessories — sponges, powder puffs, makeup brushes, exfoliating nets — with metals and precious stones. Her work, like a contemporary Powder Room, creates a hybrid space where identities are recomposed and gender is re-enacted. Jewellery does not decorate — it performs. Each piece functions as a portable stage, a site of dialogue between personal mythologies, imaginaries, and sensory experiences.

Jewelry artist and visual artist Clémentine Despocq sees jewelry as a vessel for stories and emotions. Trained in both crafts and industrial design, she combines traditional and contemporary techniques. Since 2017, she has been handcrafting her pieces while exploring materials, bringing mother-of-pearl and metal together as a ground for transformation. Through experimentation with forms and colors, she creates hybrid pieces. In parallel, she develops a freer, more sculptural practice where jewelry becomes a true artistic language.

Isabelle Gillieaux is a Belgian visual artist. She creates hybrid pieces from objects drawn from the feminine sphere. In her repertoire of imagined objects—at once delicate, sensual, and dissonant—fragments and materials merge or collide in combinations that blend refinement and bad taste, seduction and repulsion. She also creates (un)wearable sculptures and accessories that question the contemporary body and its transformations. Trained as a psychologist, she studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Charleroi (BE). Winner of the Baron Paulus Prize in November 2025.

While investigating identity, Jeannette Knigge (Netherlands, 1973) learned that identity is fluid and shaped by social environments. People adapt to social rules while trying to preserve who they are and be recognised for it.
The artist’s work does not offer a single definition of identity, but questions whether identity can exist without a social context and explores the complexity of being seen, misunderstood, celebrated or silenced.
The pieces raise questions about social behaviour and expectations of ourselves and others. Jeannette Knigge explores how personal adornment can express, obscure and challenge identity in contemporary society.

Photographer and visual artist Philippine Schaefer creates photograms through performances on photosensitive surfaces. The body functions both as subject and medium, an interface between the visible and the invisible. Born in Germany, she has lived and worked in Paris since 1991. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) in Paris in 1997, she notably studied with Christian Boltanski and Marina Abramović.

Over time, sculpture has given way to performance in her practice, while photography has become its witness. Her images, produced in the darkroom, emerge from an alchemy of body, light, and matter, resulting in unique prints exhibited internationally.

Svetlana Prigoditch is a multidisciplinary artist based in the Netherlands, working at the intersection of contemporary jewellery, scent, and botanical material research. Her practice explores the transformation of ephemeral elements — such as flowers, fragrance, and touch — into material form. Through tactile objects and olfactory compositions, she creates intimate works that function as vessels of memory and perception. Her work has been presented internationally at Schmuck (DE), Athens Jewelry Week (GR), Milano Jewelry Week (IT), and Brussels Jewelry Week (BE).