October Donations - Breast Cancer Awareness Month

We are pleased to donate 10% of the net proceeds of these necklace during the month of October 2024 to UK based charity Future Dreams. Future Dreams provides practical and emotional support for those diagnosed with breast cancer, promotes health awareness and funds vital secondary breast cancer research. 

Behind the Venice Benniale "Breasts" Exhibition

Designed by YSSO exclusively for the Venice Benniale "Breasts" Exhibition, curated by Carolina Pasti. Breasts is a major group exhibition celebrating the iconography and symbolism of breasts during the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. 

Breasts showcases the diverse works of more than thirty emerging and established artists from around the world, spanning the realms of painting, sculpture, photography, and film from 1500 until modern day. 

Breasts is comprised of five distinct rooms as well as an immersive and site-specific entryway designed by Buchanan Studio. The exhibition includes surrealist artworks by Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dali’s Nude with Snail Breasts. Through the lens of photography, the third room examines the impact of digital media on the representation of breasts. The Surrealist photography of Robert Mapplethorpe and Irving Penn explores unconventional and symbolic representations of the body, moving beyond traditional and literal depictions.

The curator has partnered with Fondazione IEO-MONZINO, dedicating 30% of the exhibition catalogue funds to support the foundation’s cause and essential research. The mission of this exhibition is to promote awareness of breast cancer to a broader public through the channel of art.

Read more about the exhibition here.

THE DESIGN STORY

The Mother of the Gods earrings hand-designed by Alexia and Stalo Karides in Athens, are inspired by the Greek Minoan Snake Goddesses found in Knossos. 

These Goddesses discovered in 1903 in Knossos, Crete are figurative sculptures which are portrayed with conspicuously exposed breasts, a powerful symbol of fertility, protection, and female strength. Our Mother of the Gods Earrings seek to pay homage to a time when the female form was not just celebrated but revered. The ultimate statement earrings, they are a modern interpretation of the Minoan Snake Goddesses, aiming to demonstrate the power, strength, and beauty inherent in femininity and reflect the essence of a society that honoured the sacred and maternal from ancient times.  

THE DETAILS

Hand carved, these earrings are small sculptures. Made from up to 35% recyclable and natural bronze double plated with 18 and 24 karat gold.