The Contemporary Austin’s 2021 Benefit Auction Hosted by Sotheby’s
The Contemporary Austin’s 2021 Benefit Auction Hosted by Sotheby’s
Susan Scafati
grounding, i
Lot Closed
October 18, 06:08 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 22,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Susan Scafati
b. 1976
grounding, i
Mixed media
60 x 12 x 12 inches
Executed in 2021.
Please note that while this auction is hosted on Sothebys.com, it is being administered by The Contemporary Austin (“the museum”), and all post-sale matters (inclusive of invoicing and property pickup/shipment) will be handled by the museum. As such, Sotheby’s will share the contact details for the winning bidders with the museum so that they may be in touch directly post-sale.
Courtesy the artist
Susan Scafati is an American conceptual artist based in Austin, TX who explores how individual versus collective identities and personal versus cultural mythologies are constructed. Her installation grounding, i refers to the ritual of touching nature to ground oneself. Scafati's art plays with changing light refractions as a metaphor for "cultural lag", a term coined by William Fielding Ogburn which focuses on the lag between material culture — the technology, the infrastructure, the physical things— and immaterial culture — the rituals, the rules, the institutions.
A portion of proceeds will benefit the artist.