This was something of an intriguing artwork to walk past and it’s Kafka by Lumturi Blloshmi (1944-2020), created in 2009. She was an Albanian artist who was stuck working for a while under the suppression of the communist regime, but later on in her career she focused on artworks that related to the human skull. This artwork is made out of resin with hundreds of the cigarette ends which are attached to it, trying to emphasise the transience of life and the dangers of pollution. Unfortunately, she died on Covid in 2020 and she had been deaf since the age of five, so she had to contest against political repression, the limitations of the art world being mostly male and a lack of hearing. She sounds like really something of a fascinating character. There’s more information about her life at https://secondaryarchive.org/artists/lumturi-blloshmi/.