The Undecided Sceptic, 2024

The Undecided Sceptic, 2024, Hand blown pigmented glass, steel, fringing, electrical cable, bulb. Glass blown by David Hotař, assisted by Emil Kováč and Stanislav Beránek, 200 × 44 × 35 cm

The Undecided Sceptic (2024) is an illuminated sculpture that embodies a specific state of indecision, grappling with a heightened sense of uncertainty. Expanding on the artist’s series The Undecidables, created for Fudakowski’s first solo exhibition in the United States, In The State of Decision, this work uses laser-cut steel to both form and constrain hand-blown glass. The figure becomes a two-faced head, with its hands partly framing and restraining where the mouth might be. This gesture emphasize the stifling of certainty and the inability to settle on one “truth.” Likewise, the “body” of the piece is defined by a set of collapsible, irregularly formed steel hoops that hang below the glass head and support rows of intermittent fringing. As the piece gently turns, different shapes are created and lost in the overlapping linear shapes, blocks of color and changing faces. Change, and therefore uncertainty, is thus built into the piece, gently pointing to the difficulty of holding on to certainty in a “post-truth” world.