Gold is a controversial material. Today, it is largely used on the ground of its physical properties - electrical conductivity, resistance to corrosion and radiations, ductility - for the functioning of consumer electronics, digital media, telecommunications, and also as shield foil in space explorations. Gold is diluted into all of the base of their secret functioning.
In the work of Gold Rush, by using non-extractive approach to process gold and other precious metals/minerals from electronic waste and reassembling these materiality visible on the body through jewellery pieces meant to adorn, the intention is to discuss the gold of our time and its material culture in our consumer society.
