L'Enfant de Verre
About the piece
L'Enfant de Verre (The Glass Child, 2009) by Berend Strik uses French to title a work about fragility — the child made of glass, transparent and vulnerable, beautiful and breakable.
The glass child is a powerful metaphor for vulnerability: children are already fragile beings, and making them transparent makes that fragility visible. The glass child can be seen but cannot be touched without risk of breaking.
This connects to the Dutch tradition of glass painting and to the broader theme of childhood vulnerability that Strik explores in works like "A Smile of the Kid" and "Mothers and Snow." The child is both protected and exposed by its transparency.
The French title adds an elegance appropriate to this fragile subject — the child of glass as a precious object, requiring careful handling, worthy of museum display even as it remains fundamentally fragile.
Sources: Galerie Fons Welters
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