EÈ CHAN

EÈ CHAN is an independent jewellery brand launch in London. With the timeless aesthetics and wearable art style EÈ CHAN aims to win the favour of the avant-grade jewellery lover. Electronic components have a special place in Xinyi Chen’s heart– she calls them ‘Artificial Intelligems’. She is fascinated with their shapes, textures, colors, precise structures, digital spirituality, and hidden beauty, and draws from her childhood memory of the components used by her computer practitioner mother. She is also influenced by the experience of visiting Chatsworth House in Yorkshire, where traditional and contemporary crafts live side by side. In her work Xinyi combines electronic waste with silver and 3D design techniques, creating her own idiom. Through the elevation of e-waste as a luxury material for circular economy, EÈ CHAN challenges proposes a transgressive approach to what we value moving forward, highlighting boundary between ‘physical versus digital’ and showing a new way of living in digital awe and pleasure.