Barely contained, while we share the same moon

70% of the hammer price is allocated to support the non-profit foundation Spolu s odvahou, a member of the Bátor Tábor Family.

glass blown by David Hotař, assisted by Emil Kováč and Stanislav Beránek in Nový Bor

Kasia Fudakowski is an internationally accomplished British artist currently based in Berlin. Her diverse body of work includes sculpture, video, performance, and the written word. She combines playfulness with conceptual rigidity, using humor and absurdity to reveal deeper layers of language, human identity, and social institutions. Her best-known work, Continuouslessness, is an ironic commentary on the identity of the artist and the idea of a closed, finished work. It consists of a modular system of sculpturally conceived connected panels, which the artist adds to with each successive exhibition, with the work to be closed only upon her death. It reflects, among other things, the artist’s interest in the element of repetition and processuality, where the process of creation is as important as the outcome. In recent years, Fudakowski has often worked with hand-blown glass. She used this technique in her work Barely contained, while we share the same moon, which she created with the help of Czech glassmakers in the town of Nový Bor. It is a glass object that is also a lamp with two faces, one of which is turned upside down. The work is a suggestive, ambiguous space between identities and artistic categories.