"Male Jaw-Piece"
Design House Alexander McQueen British
Designer Shaun Leane British
Designer Alexander McQueen British
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British jewelry designer Shaun Leane trained and worked as a goldsmith and fine jeweler before collaborating with designer Alexander McQueen in the early 1990s. For McQueen, Leane experimented with non-precious and unconventional materials in designs for atavistic and fetishistic objects. Leane created this jaw-piece, a cast aluminum section of a male jaw with broken and missing teeth, along with a female version and a cast aluminum “Spine” corset, to expose the anatomical structure of the body. The skeletal pieces draw on the tradition of memento mori jewelry, with cast bone serving as a reference to death and the transience of human experience.
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