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ABBA — Archaeology of the Unconscious

ABBA’s work lies at the intersection of archaeology, memory, and the unconscious. The figures do not represent individuals but rather presences: hybrid forms suspended between artifact and organism, between ancestral matter and contemporary imagery.

The body—deliberately elongated and disproportionate—sheds all realistic references, taking on an almost ritualistic dimension. It is an elemental creature, at once fragile and monumental, as if it had emerged from a distant past to resurface in the present.

The circular, spiral-shaped head evokes the Eneolithic statue-steles of Lunigiana, Sardinia, and the Mediterranean. This is not merely an archaeological reference but a quest for an archetype: the face, stripped of individual features, loses its specific identity to become a symbol, a collective memory, a totem.

The spiral also introduces a continuous, almost hypnotic movement—a return toward the center, toward a deep, unconscious memory. The figure thus appears to inhabit a suspended dimension where time does not move linearly but circles back, settles, and transforms.

The artifact becomes an organism; the organism seems to turn into a fossil; the fossil, in turn, becomes a presence once more.

Thus, a timeless creature is born: archaic yet contemporary, organic yet mineral, human yet alien. It is a presence that seems to stem from history while simultaneously belonging to a future yet to be imagined.

It is precisely within the tension between the archaic and the contemporary, memory and the unconscious, destruction and permanence, that the identity of ABBA’s work is defined.