Nicolas Christol

Nicolas Christol was born in 1982 in Lausanne, Switzerland. After working across photography, installation art, and performance, he turned to contemporary jewellery, which he has explored as a self-taught practitioner since 2018. His practice investigates the social, political, and symbolic dimensions of objects, using jewellery as a medium for critical reflection. Drawing on references to economic systems, structures of authority, and mechanisms of domination, his work examines the ways capitalism, power, and violence shape everyday life and collective imaginaries. Through material experimentation and conceptual approaches, he seeks to reveal tensions embedded within contemporary society.