Fossil Memory

Ugo Schiavi (b. 1987, Paris, France; lives in Marseille, France)

Fossil Memory is a mammoth perched atop a plinth, embedded with cables and mechanical elements. The work evokes the tension between seemingly opposing forces: synthetic and organic, past and future, fiction and reality. Both remains from the past and souvenir from the future, the sculpture reflects the memory of our origins and the myth of unlimited progress.