Matti Braun Untitled, 2024

The hand-blown glass object plays with its hybrid status as sculpture and product of craftsmanship and with the tension that has traditionally existed between these two areas of production - that of art and of crafts. At the same time, Matti Braun's glass works also draw on a tightly woven web of references and associations characteristic of the artist's practice: an early glass work was used as prop in his staging of The Alien. In addition, the translucent objects recall eyes, and especially the protruding "bug" eyes found in popular representations of the exaggerated physiognomy of alien creatures.