1997

Ein Fingerring, eine bewegliche Skulptur für den Finger, die je nach Inhalt ihre Form verändert.
Leere Plastiksäcklein schickte ich zusammen mit der Einladung zur Ausstellung an die Besuchenden mit der Aufforderung sich mit einem gefüllten Fingerbag an einer grossen Installation zu beteiligen.
125 eingesandte Fingerbags habe ich fotografiert und dokumentiert.

Fingerbag, Plastik,11x7,5cm

Sammlung Schweizerisches Landesmuseum

David Watkins schreibt im Design Sourcebook Jewellery:

„Margrit Linder shows a selection from „Fingerbags“, a project which gently questions definitions of jewellery whilst encouraging participation and exchange.
Taking as a starting point some small plastic bags with finger holes designed for carrying found objekts, she advanced the concept that these amounted to fingerrings or sculptures for the hand. They offered a unifying form which would be the basis for audience participation in an exhibition. Inventive solutions would multiply, and the exhibition grow, according to the number of active responses. Participants would also have a chance to win, by lottery, examples submitted by the artist or others.
This idea might be fun, but it also cleverly exploits a whole range of dynamics in jewellery, exhibited art, social behaviour, politics. Its tacit theme, however, is to expose the intuition that owners of jewellery somehow form a network within society, that they are associated by their appreciation of, and complicity in, its values.“