MALIN PIERRE
In 2017, after a decade as a TV and film scenographer and production designer, Malin Pierre turned her full attention to working with glass. The organic shapes of her sculptures are inspired by haute couture fashion and its exploration of volume, color and texture. Pierre’s molds are made by encasing soft sewn fabric objects, which she executes in blown glass. They show her intense curiosity for materials, their surfaces, weights and textures. The billowing forms delve into the contrast between soft and hard. In tracing the way glass appears and behaves, the way it transitions from amorphous liquid to a precise imprint of the mold -- down to the original tactile surface of her sewn original -- Pierre’s pieces evoke soft, voluminous upholstery in hardened glass, inviting touch and contemplation. Many of her objects are also mirrored, emphasizing subtle sheen and color transitions.
Malin Pierre (b. 1977) is part of a new group of women artists working with glass in Sweden, whose feminist lens permeates their work. The luscious curves of Pierre’s vessel-based pieces, some of which are inherently anthropomorphic and suggestive of the female figure, are always juxtaposed with the fragility of glass.
