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In hot shops and studios across Denmark and Sweden, these sculptors have cultivated a distinct facility with the techniques of blown glass, cast molten forms, and etched and chiseled surfaces. Glass functions as a multivalent substance which transmutes opaque sand into translucent imagery at once recognizable yet elusive; in their hands, this rich medium conveys enigma, utopian histories, baroque sensibilities, and bodily fragility.

The mold-blown glass works of Stine Bidstrup and Frida Fjellman glint mysteriously, refracting and trapping light within their jagged, hard-edged geometries. …