Filippo Sciascia’s objects, in their physical make-up, bring into focus the notion of the longue duree. Primitive and modern materials are repurposed as asynchronous elements, gesturing at the glacial spans of geological timescales and the fact that, according to the artist, “all these materials related to science and natural biological structure are the foundations on which we humans stand.” Crescita Tecno Organica and Untitled are both vertical sculptural forms that foreground the presence of pre-historic matter, juxtaposed against materials that arrived much later in the history of technological and industrial development. In these works, long, aluminium stands bear the weight of different substances: resin in the case of the former, quartz in the latter. Here, as is typical of many of his works, material and motif coincide. Adorning the metal spine of Crescita is a serrated column which, as Sciascia notes, is intended as an abstract rendering of the jagged edges of the leaves of various plant species. The column is fabricated from resin, including a proportion of fossilized resin; resin, of course, is derived from coniferous trees, a medium that thus agrees with the botanical form of the work. Like Crescita, Untitled is marked by its use of geological material - in this case, a line of quartz ore.