Carina Shoshtary, is a Munich-based artist of German and Iranian ancestry, is known for her other-worldly contemporary jewelry pieces made from unconventional materials for unusual areas of the body. Her jewelry can be characterized as emotional, imaginative and innovative. For Shoshtary, making a piece is an organic, intuitive process in which the maker and the piece step into a kind of communication. Often one piece paves the way to the next.

Shoshtary describes herself as a kind of modern hunter- gatherer as she finds the materials for her artworks in her immediate surroundings. Her choice of materials is often unusual: colorful graffiti from heavily sprayed walls, old bobbin laces found in a cellar, the plastic nets of shower sponges. All her materials have had a previous life, a former use and meaning. With scientific curiosity and sensitive intuition, Shoshtary reveals the potential of these materials.

The distinctive impression of Shoshtary’s pieces depict her own view of a parallel imaginary world but leave enough space for the viewer to experience them within his/her own realm of imagination. Shoshtary’s sources of inspiration are also diverse: music, books, movies, but also everyday images, thoughts and dreams are all woven in and bundled into abstract assemblages of her daily life. Color plays a central role in Shoshtary’s work. She examines the psychological effects of colors and color combinations and uses them to express and trigger emotions.