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Friborg (Danish, b. 1983) challenges historical methods of glassmaking with a dramatically physical approach that pushes the limits of material and technique. His process is as much performance as a functional act; with unbridled intensity he pierces, ruptures, and manipulates the molten substance with results that are otherworldly, his tour de force actions viscerally reflected in the transformed material.

As Maja Heuer, Swedish Art Historian and Independent Art Curator writes:

"In his highly personal works, Danish born artist Bjørn Friborg fixates on the intimate act of exposing and …