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To weave a conceptual web with a confessional thread is a painstaking journey. Ask Tracey Emin, who hasn’t relented in this approach since her absurdly personal piece Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995. A more confessional and revealing artwork is almost impossible to imagine, and the piece was soon canonized in art history and quickly swooped up by major art collector. Despite all of this, Emin refused to recreate the piece after it burned down in 2004. “I had the inclination and inspiration 10 years ago to make that, I don’t have that inspiration and inclination now. My work is very personal, so I can’t create that emotion again — it’s impossible.” Such is the sheer intensity of fueling the conceptual with the personal;

Zuzana Spustova has always mingled her own personal story with her conceptual innovations. Her first collection Alphabet was a jewelry set designed for babies, inspired by the presence of her own newborn son Johann at home. The same for collection called Mon Premier Diamant designed exclusively for Bonpoint Paris in 2017.

AUDACE, her latest collection, also takes inspiration from her own intimate life in its conceptual groundwork, though in a completely different way.

With her background in marketing, her new role as a designer allows her to be freer and approach things more intuitively without any perceptual constrains. Always fascinated and energized by very refined things as art and modern architecture, she also finds lots inspiration in nature that offers the most physical and organic images.

Native Slovak, constantly on the move combines the influences of her upbringing with perpetual search of new references. Passionate about concept development, Zuzana lives in Oslo with her husband and 3 children.

PHOTOGRAPHY PIOTR NIEPSUJ