The Day the Sand Caught Fire: Ugo Schiavi
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T H E P I L L ® is pleased to announce The Day the Sand Caught Fire, Ugo Schiavi's second solo exhibition in Istanbul with new works.
Drawing its title from the work The Day the Sand Caught Fire first presented in Riyadh in 2023, the exhibition will be on view from June 19 through July 26, 2025, at T H E P I L L ®'s Istanbul location at Ayvansaray Mah. Mürselpaşa Cad. 181.
Ugo Schiavi weaves together time and space, corrupting the distinction between the past and present, causing the creation of ever-evolving hybrids, ultimately heralding a new era and identity. The Day the Sand Caught Fire (2023) requires time, curiosity, and patience to fully appreciate its finer complexities. The eye discerns, perhaps, the remains of a drilling machine, the silhouette of one of Al-Ula’s colossi, or an altar from an ancient civilization. These anachronistic interpretations merge or try to reappear through these newly formed ruins, begging the question of what they once were and what they could be.
