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Discarded architectural glass is transformed into functional art. Once part of a window frame, fragments return to the other side of the wall as sculptures, shelves and lighting — revealing an elevated purpose beyond protection.
Characteristics
Behind the Facade is one of the projects through which Sandy Bruns explores the dignity and value of materials that have lost their original function. The collection focuses on architectural glass: a material once essential to the facades of buildings, but increasingly replaced as technological developments demand higher levels of energy efficiency. Behind The Facade documents this evolution.
Sandy Bruns gives these glass fragments new meaning. By cutting, layering and recomposing the glass, she emphasises the material’s qualities. Colour, transparency, texture and form are now the outstanding characteristics in the objects ranging from shelves and lighting to sculptural wall pieces.
Sustainable?
The collection also raises a question about sustainability and technological progress: when materials are removed in the pursuit of greater energy efficiency, what happens to the tactile value of what is left behind? And when energy and resources are invested in transforming discarded materials into objects intended to last, where does sustainability begin and end? Behind the Facade does not offer a definitive answer. Instead, it invites a conversation about whether sustainability can also be understood on the level of material value, longevity and preservation.
Sandy Bruns invites you to experience the tactility and purity in person, engage in the conversation and discover the material from a different perspective. All sculptural works are available for purchase and can be taken home directly to become part of your interior.
