In this video, a sculpture by Czech artist David Černý depicting the head of Franz Kafka spins and twists back into form. Installed in a Prague shopping center in 2014, the moving figure honoring the author of The Metamorphosis weighs over forty tons, and is comprised of forty-two independently-rotating steel layers.
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