RESEMIOTIZATION – THE FRANZ KAFKA’S KINETIC SCULPTURE

Resemiotization relates to how meanings shift from medium to medium, from practice to practice, from context to context and from one cultural space to the next. Resemiotization concerns how signs are translated from and into different mediums and cultural spaces as a continuous social and cultural mechanism.

Franz Kafka's kinetic head is one of the world's most impressive contemporary statues, which illustrates the concept “resemiotization” in the best possible way.

The genius sculptor David ?erny translated (resemioticized) the immortal tragic novella "The Metamorphosis" into the language of sculpture and the mechanics.

The book “Metamorphosis” is the tragic and desperate story of the salesman Gregor Samsa, who was transformed (metamorphized, resemioticized) one morning into a huge disgusting insect (ungeheueres Ungeziefer - monstrous vermin).

"One morning Gregor Zamza awoke in bed after restless dreams to find that he had been reincarnated as a huge insect..."

The kinetic 45-ton sculpture is 11 meters tall and consists of 42 rotating panels. Each panel (layer) revolves individually.

The kinetic statue continuously transforms the head of the immortal Kafka and expresses brilliantly with its specific sign systems (these of sculpture and mechanics) the extra-linguistic notion of "metamorphosis".

In this way, the book and the statue constantly remind us that everyone can be altered into something terrible and to be rejected even by her/his closest relatives...