HEDVIG BERGMAN
A GLASS EYE STORE
Antikvariat Hundörat, Östgötagatan 20, 116 25 Stockholm
Saint Lucy’s Day 2026
“Do you see the eye?” she asked me.
“Well?”
“It’s an egg,” she concluded in all simplicity.
According to Simone in The Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, the eye is an egg and she wants to play with it.
The eye is wet and tender, but remains strong. It can pierce through flesh despite its fragile membrane. The membrane is reminiscent of the porous shell of the oval egg and poses a constant threat to the soft center. By contrast, the glass eye is dry and hard – yet remains a similar fragility.
In A GLASS EYE STORE, Hedvig Bergman meditates on the fixed glass eye. From E.T.A Hoffmann’s The Sandman to Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, George Bataille’ s The Story of the Eye, André Breton’s Nadja to Buñuel and Dalí’s An Andalusian Dog, the eye emerges as an everpresent reminder of the seen and the seeing. In her installation, the eyes serve as a reminder of the fates of mythical creatures and characters – the eyes that remain and those lost, removed or forcefully taken.
Antikvariat Hundörat will operate as a functioning business for glass eyes on the day of Saint Lucy. Echoing the sale of glass eyes in classic literature, A GLASS EYE STORE presents a new sound installation alongside sculptural work.
Curated by Spitbucket