Kasia Fudakowski

Blinking Bonkers

2016

1030,00

Ceramic, glaze, nylon and wire

30 × 5 × 5 cm

Edition of 5 copies – signed, dated and numbered by the artist

In stock

This edition is published by GAK

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about this work

Kasia Fudakowski’s works often assume a position between physicality and abstraction, with an affinity for the absurd and humorous. The same applies to this edition. The piece comprises fifteen ceramic life-size eyelids to which the artist has glued fake eyelashes and grouped them together in an absurdist Dadaesque eyelid mobile.

Fudakowski uses the title, Blinking Bonkers, to create a humorous connection with the shape of the eyelid, referencing the eye’s ability to blink but also the notion of craziness or insanity. The British idiom “to be on the blink” also means that something is broken or not working quite right. These various interpretations of the title combined with the work’s appearance create an image of eyelids that wink crazily at the viewer, as if they cannot believe their own eyes.

about Kasia Fudakowski

Kasia Fudakowski’s sculptural practice provides a totally independent view of artistic production in a social context. Both her sculptures, which often hover somewhere between figurative and abstract, and her sculptural practice-related performances and videos refer to her interest in the theory and philosophy of humour.

Fudakowski focuses on the immediate, tense relationship between artist and audience, on patterns of expectation, representational ideals, theatricality, and the interpretation of objects as identities. Her fascination for the tremendous critical potential for humour as a comment on human failure, especially when it comes to social systems, is a crucial feature.

 

 

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