Rossella Biscotti
Fragments and Futures brings together contemporary artists whose work engages with the visual languages, material remains, and mythic narratives of classical archaeology. Through painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and digital media, these artists reconsider how ancient forms and artefacts continue to shape our cultural imagination. The exhibition asks: What does it mean to “unearth” the past today? How do contemporary artists reinterpret the ruins and relics of antiquity in light of present-day questions about identity, heritage, and historical narrative? Rather than treating classical archaeology as a fixed canon of beauty and order, the exhibition foregrounds it as a site of active interpretation—one marked by absence, reconstruction, and the politics of preservation. Artists in Fragments and Futures approach antiquity as both a material archive and a metaphorical field: a repository of fragments that invite speculation, reanimation, and critique.