Mia Gosset works metal through forging and hammering, translating a need to be surrounded by antique objects into a personal vocabulary of artefacts. Self-taught, she built her practice through daily exploration rather than a fixed method, treating trial and error as the process that gradually refines each piece toward its final form. A background in fashion, studied at Duperré, shapes how her metal pieces relate to the body, while her Belgian upbringing and current base in Paris feed a lasting pull toward objects that have lost their original function and gained symbolic weight instead.
Across her output, Gosset constructs a mythology from fragments of folklore, creatures, plants, and architectural detail, often building moving parts into a piece so it can be handled and set into motion rather than only displayed. She treats myth as a symbolic structure to activate instead of a narrative to illustrate, drawing on personal references alongside traditions such as Siberian, Altaic, Celtic, and Japanese cosmologies, where transformation and liminal states recur throughout the source material. Her range moves between jewellery, small trinkets, and larger sculptural commissions, all marked with a signature stamp that ties the different scales of her work together.
This practice has drawn commissions from figures such as Rick Owens and Lady Gaga, pulled less by scale than by the intimacy jewellery holds as an object carried directly against the body. Gosset describes jewellery as something that incarnates and amplifies whoever wears it, communicating in an immediate register a static object cannot reach. That same logic drives her interest in non-utilitarian furniture and pieces stripped of practical use, objects she sees gaining meaning precisely once they are freed from function and left to operate as relics for a past she keeps reaching back toward.
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