José Yaque: Fósil II

The work by José Yaque (b.1985, Cuba) involves the building of a fossil from a used bicycle, and consists of the process of execution and the result. It will be carried out at a previously determined time and place, and will be done at the same location where it will be displayed. The entire process will be documented and that documentation will also form part of it. Almost everything comes from the earth and to the earth it returns in an eternal circular movement.

The work entitled Fossil II seeks to reflect on this issue, the cyclical and the transcendent. When creating his sculptures, Michelangelo said that the only thing he did was to extract bodies and shapes that were already in the stone; his work process was a type of collaboration. With Fossil II, the artist strives, among other things and through an inverted process, to give back to the earth what presumably came from it. To give a final resting place to a bused object, though ordinary, but also to an idea, in order to then receive from the earth something different.