Lori Talcott

grew up in a family of jewelers and watchmakers. She was taught that one could make anything, and that jewelry is inherently imbued with power and magic. Through the format of jewelry, her work and research engage with contemporary theories on magic, the agency of objects, and the nexus of language and matter. Her performance projects explore the role of jewelry as a rhetorical device, and in this capacity, how it functions as an agent in rituals that negotiate social, temporal, and spiritual boundaries.