Kays Masood
Timeless Watch, 2026
Collection: All the Hope in the World
Sterling silver, vintage stainless steel
18 × 2 cm
Unique piece
Desiring all the hope in the world has nothing sort of an illusion. Bearing hope start with looking for inspiration: how people style, how people embody their own otherness- accessories and clothes incarnating then the signs and clues of their singular expression. A testimony. Belonging to a minority forces us to reinvent ourselves in the face of the world. Power lies then in our ability to stand out and encapsulate our individuality while summoning memory, as proofs of reincarnation. Visiting past home, looking at old photos, retrieving a forgotten smell. Building memory in this unwilling moments, connecting the dots between an abolished past and a future to desire.
In this journey, we look for symbols, personal items, beacons guiding us to kindred spirits. This is what growing means-questioning our identities, reinstating our queerness, wherever it is. We all cling to souvenirs: a great- grandmother's watch, tokens of family and friendship, as anchors of our exiles. More than ever, as memories start fading away, these objects shift into vital touchstones, reigniting the past in chance encounters -a stranger's necklace in the metro evoking a long lost neighbor, a ring sparking nostalgia for high school days. Objects possess a strength to weave together the fragments of our existences.
ALL THE HOPE IN THE WORLD materialize this exploration of the journey through the artist’s experience of displacement, examining how nostalgia shapes identity- ies and influences our understanding of self and belonging.
This work is an original creation by Kays Masood, conceived and produced in Brussels.
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