"The Invincibility of Fragility: Glass" series
Annushka Broche’s new series continues her Invulnerability project, in which the artist explores the transformation of the body through the interaction of materials. While her earlier works employed ceramics, glass and metal now become the principal elements. Combined, they create a metaphor for protection and recovery.
The metal framework, reminiscent of a shibari harness, serves as a support for glass forms blown within its contours. This combination of materials gives the glass not merely a shape, but an inner tension, creating the illusion of a living body that is both protected and constricted from the outside. The technique of blowing hot-worked glass directly into a metal framework was inspired by an everyday object: an antique Murano lamp purchased by the artist in Venice. Unlike ceramics, however, the glass responded almost like a living body, tightened by a corset.
In this series, glass, traditionally perceived as a fragile material, acquires strength and protection through the metal framework. Broche creates the image of a body that can be assembled, held together, and reinforced, exploring the contrast between vulnerability and resilience, destruction and creation. These works reveal a process of transformation in which fragility and strength are not opposites, but complementary forces that come together to form a whole — much like the very essence of the feminine.
Annushka Broche graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Printing Arts in 1995 with a degree in graphic arts. Since 1987, she has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in Russia and internationally. In 2015, she was awarded the Jury’s Special Prize at the 8th International Biennale of Ceramics in South Korea. Since 2019, she has been a member of the European Academy of Ceramics (AIC).
Broche works across a wide range of genres and media, from painting and graphic art to installation, ceramics, and video art. For the artist, the essential element is fidelity to the subject, regardless of the medium through which it is expressed. She lives and works in Moscow.
Broche’s practice revolves around several closely interconnected themes: the enduring cult of beauty and its transformation within consumer ideology, as well as the place of the feminine in art and society. She reflects on corporeality as such — on the boundary between authentic beauty and its imitation, on the ways in which these concepts become commodities, and on what happens when aesthetics encounters ethics.
A defining feature of her method is that material becomes a full-fledged participant in the artistic statement rather than merely a means of realizing it. In Broche’s hands, ceramics, porcelain, painting, and graphic art become living structures that determine the rhythm and logic of the work as a whole, while simultaneously becoming independent subjects of investigation. In her projects, the artist combines a close examination of corporeality, the fragility of human existence, and questions of female identity with an exceptionally refined, almost jewelry-like attention to form and texture.
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