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Ugo Schiavi
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.
Support
Major support for the High Line Plinth is provided by members of the High Line Plinth Committee and contemporary art leaders committed to realizing major commissions and engaging in the public success of the Plinth. Learn more about the High Line Plinth Committee.