Glass Bridge - Debora Muszkat

The Glass Bridge

Built in 2011 in Debora Muszkat’s garden-studio, The Glass Bridge is an installation that combines matter, memory and metaphor. Inspired by Monet’s iconic bridge in Giverny, the work does not imitate — it transposes: it brings the theme of the water mirror and floating flowers to a contemporary urban setting, where the lake is replaced by a swimming pool, and the reflections come not only from the water, but also from fragments of glass and industrial mirrors.

A crossing between the natural, the industrial and the imaginary

The structure, made of metal with the raw appearance of cranes, establishes a deliberate contrast with the poetic lightness of the glassy flowers, which emerge from this new hybrid environment between nature and waste. It is a garden that is “between liquid and solid”, where glass reveals its multiple states and its transformative essence.

Glass Bridge is also a gesture of criticism and re-enchantment. In a world marked by mass production and excessive waste, Debora rescues industrial glass — bottles, jars, containers — and transforms them into art through artisanal processes, such as cutting, thermal shock and intuitive polishing. What was once trash gains presence: a flower, a stained glass window, a fragment of landscape.

More than a contemplative object, the Glass Bridge is a journey. It invites the viewer to cross material and symbol, nature and manufacturing, memory and future. Glass, here, acts as a mirror and reinvention — a symbol of industry and also of the sacred, of repetition and chance.

Debora transforms waste into visual echoes: shards reflecting shards, reflections upon reflections. Like a kind of “imaginary machine,” the bridge’s mirrors return infinite images to us, always the same and always different. They are fragments of ourselves, of a world that is seen and remade — through glass.

Studio Debora Muszkat

Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sønderborg, Danmark

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