Mah Rana

Those in the field will have heard the name Mah Rana before. Rana has systematically treated jewellery as a conceptual entity, researching her own family history and investigating the social institutions, rites and rituals that create, and are revealed by, so many forms of adornment. Her ongoing Meanings and Attachments project also collects narrative evidence of the entanglements of jewellery in the form of portrait photographs and stories from her subjects. See this and Jewellery is Life at http://www.mahrana.com/work.htm.