Natalia Brilli

Natalia Brilli is a Belgian artist who previously moved through the institutional circuits of fashion, designing accessories for Rochas, Céline, and Mugler. She later transitioned into applied arts, producing home objects and so-called wearable art — a category we approach with pronounced suspicion. And yet, here the usual objections partially fail. The technical foundation is crucial. Brilli employs a leather-wrapping method originating in the 1930s, concealing the structural core beneath an ultra-thin layer of leather. The result is jewelry and wearables of extraordinary delicacy and precision, where construction disappears and only surface remains. We should not consider them as part of a cohesive body of work tho, but rather as singular occurrences that are good.