Indio Möglich Danish

Indio Möglich works in glass, creating sculptural vessels and skulls whose technical and aesthetic vocabulary is inspired by Venetian and Swedish glass traditions. Educated in glass at the Royal Danish Academy's glass and ceramics department on Bornholm, his practice is rooted in sculptural expression rather than vessel-making in the functional sense, and it is shaped by his attraction to the particular discipline glass demands: a fast, physical, and unforgiving medium that permits no hesitation in execution. The process is intuitive and develops through sustained looking at historical objects rather than a predetermined design.

 

A logic of accumulation organises his work. Möglich draws on Baroque iconography and the ornamental grammar of Gothic architecture. He appropriates charged symbols from eclectic and often incongruous sources, arranging them using systems borrowed from vernacular tattoo traditions, such as the classical American sailor flash and the coded imagery of Russian prison tattoos. In those traditions, dense fields of accreted signs carry biographical and allegorical weight. Möglich extends the same principle to sculpture: Baroque saints, predatory animals, and military hardware are flattened onto a single plane, where a crocodile, an eagle, Ferrari red, or a cross circulate as equivalent emblems of power, predation, and status.

 

This method recalls Aby Warburg's idea of the Nachleben: the afterlife of charged motifs as they survive and migrate across radically different epochs, surfacing in incongruous new contexts while keeping their original emotional charge. The skull lined with gold, the Pope's eye socket, and the bird-infested aqueduct each gather antiquity and the contemporary sublime onto one surface, indifferent to the centuries between them.