Rêveries questions the fragility of our being, the ethereal presence, and our fleeting, almost unmaterial existence.When pondering essential questions, it sets the challenge of transferring the idea of fragility and apparent lightness into the matter, where it almost disappears and leaves behind only a thought, a feeling. It relates to the question of what lies behind the alleged lightness and weightlessness, what truly makes our longings and dreams ethereal.

Tanja PAK

Republic of Slovenia

The work consists of two parts: paper foldings (the boat, the airplane, the hand fan, “day-night” and the package for sweets – sort of simple “origami”), which we used to fold in our childhood for our games, as well as glass sheets, which are a lining of those paper figures. It’s the artwork about childhood, about the simple reality and big dreams. It’s like going back in time when things have yet to happen, when the future looked bright and tempting.

Dalia TRUSKAITE

Republic of Lithuania

The flies come out if it’s warm enough. Do we like it? No! We start rebelling against them, we start fighting! They buzz! They land on our food! They are parasites! They must be destroyed! But do you always have to rebel against everything? The series, dealing with the theme of provocation and rebellion, uses the image of a fly that has woken up from sleep, raising the question, could we coexist peacefully instead of destroying someone?

Birgit PAHLAPUU

Republic of Estonia

In my artwork, I focus on “the beauty of the mixture of frosted and mirrored glass” and “the fascination of shadows reflecting into the frosted glass”. Shadows reflecting into the frosted glass changes its appearance depending on the thickness of the glass. During my working process, I feel that these changes are synchronizing with the changes of my own mind.

Michiko SAKUTA

Japan

This work describes the image of you coming home with a few bouquets of flowers. After taking a hot bath, the blurred flower shadow reflected in the mirror. I propose the concept of the “synesthetic touch” by enhancing the visual experience of the blown glass sculpture enable audiences to follow their own experiences from vision to touch. I aim at evoking memory and imagination through synesthetic medium, and providing a method beyond the visual, and to connect with the unreachable.

Jinya ZHAO

People‘s Republic of China

The Gesture of Glassmakers, reinterprets the glass-blowing process as a choreographic movements using only body itself. Although glass, heat, tools, and machines are invisible in the dance, their influence is sensed by performers, linking their movements. The project is presented through video projections, exploring into the artistic possibilities of glass, bridging with contemporary art beyond its material essence. I hope it honors glassblowers, attributing value to the aesthetic variety in movements as a unique language expressed through savoir-faire.

Dimæ

French Republic