Oui Chérie Oui is a contemporary bead practice based in Botswana, working at the intersection of material culture, memory, and constructed worlds.

The practice is guided by an ongoing inquiry into how beads function as vessels of value, memory, and cultural meaning across geographies, histories, and lived experience. It approaches beadwork not as ornament, but as a system of knowledge shaped through selection, arrangement, and repetition.

Founded in Asia and now based in Botswana, Oui Chérie Oui emerges from a long-term archive of collected, inherited, and found materials gathered across Africa, Asia, and beyond. These materials form the foundation of an evolving practice situated between jewelry, object, and collection.

Informed by material culture, histories of adornment, and the circulation of objects across regions and generations, the work considers beads as active carriers of value and meaning—once functioning as currency, heirlooms, ritual objects, and markers of identity.

Each piece is a proposition within an ongoing study of how meaning is held, transferred, and embodied through material form.

Part archive, part curiosity cabinet, Oui Chérie Oui creates objects to be worn, lived with, collected, and passed forward.