Zoé Kiner-Wolff

Zoé Kiner-Wolff is a French artist whose practice centres on the body and appearance, exploring the transformative potential of jewellery and adornment. Her work brings together multiple identities and natures—her own, those of animals, plants and inanimate beings—in a fluid meeting of forms. Influenced by the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, she views the body as a constant condition of experience and a perceptual openness to the world, a system through which the inner self is made manifest. Her work alters the senses of perception: sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste, while transforming the appearance of the wearer. Skin, for her, is a significant surface marked by time and experience—the body’s envelope and the one object that is always carried.