Ugo Schiavi’s work resides at the crossing of time, merging the contemporary and the antic in uncanny forms, finding an echo in common memory. Playing on the tensions between past and present, that could be affiliated to fictional archaeology, it gives way to engrossing narratives and balance between strength and fragility, fiction and history. Ugo Schiavi’s approach is born from a universal heritage and grows on erasing the idea of temporality via the creation of mutating artworks, willing descendants to public and universally shared monuments. Through his practice appears an anticipated archaeology that defies the linearity of time.

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Ugo Schiavi was featured in group exhibitions such as the Noor Riyadh Festival (2023), Lyon Biennale (2022), Le Voyage à Nantes (2021) and Nuit Blanche (2018).

He also had several personal exhibitions at Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble (2022); Musée Réattu, Arles (2021) and Musée, des Beaux Arts d’Orléans, Orléans (2019).