Alma Duran is a glassblower and glass artist from Stockholm, based in Småland, in the Kingdom of Crystal. She has been selected for Ung Svensk Form, a jury-based distinction that highlights some of Sweden’s most compelling emerging designers and artists. Working primarily with glass and neon, the practice unfolds at the intersection of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary, experimental sculpture. Through forms shaped by light, colour, and spatial presence, the works move between object, installation, and embodied experience.

Central to Duran's work is an ongoing exploration of contrast: the heavy and the fragile, the glossy and the fractured, the perfect and the skewed. Asymmetrical, worked openings recur as a defining motif, functioning as thresholds or portals into another reality. Colour is treated performatively—it flows, clings, and interrupts the glass’s surface, breaking its perfection and evoking associations with the biological, the chemical, and the artificial.

Neon and light act as active materials rather than illumination alone. Light penetrates the glass, tracing shifting lines within the forms and charging the objects with pulse and presence. In the meeting of glass and light, a dialogue emerges between interior and exterior, between body and object, where the expression can feel rhythmic, sensorial, or otherworldly.

At its core, Alma Duran's practice seeks to awaken curiosity and draw attention beyond the surface. The reflective openings become symbols of change and possibility, while the glow of neon, combined with the organic movement of glass, carries a belief in the future and a longing for something greater.