INTERVIEW
The Splendour of Power, Koldinghus, Denmark
by Barbara Paris Gifford
"I’ve become more aware of the fact that when working with jewelry, the empirical source material may have a bias toward the history of the privileged few. Displaying the splendor of power is easy. Today I wonder polemically if one could make a historical jewelry exhibition about anything other than power? Pieces of jewelry are privileged objects also in the sense that pieces handed down through history have an exclusive character, as the powerful, the wealthy, the cultural elite, and prevailing notions of taste have secured or bolstered their place in history by means of jewelry, while 'the others' are excluded. I wonder how one could tell the history of 'the others' with jewelry?"
