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When I started thinking on the sculptures for Data relics,
I thought I was driven by my natural curiosity and secondly,
to establish a visual equation between ancient worlds and the digital contemporary, that wraps everything.
As the project evolved I realized that it was driven by a desire
to believe again in the magic that unites us in our time.
A lot can be understood about who we are, just by the titles of the songs we identify with,and the playlists we create.
Streaming platforms are our new walls, decorated with the spells we share.The true beauty of the world is revealed to us by discovering our surprise in others, no matter if thousands of kilometers or thousands of years pass.
- BUST OF PHARAOH
- 13th Dynasty.
- This royal bust, probably dating to the 13th Dynasty, is the upper part of a seated statue. The pharaoh wears the nemes headdress with an uraeus, the protective serpent.
- 70 x48 x 30 cm
- Colosus of Ramesses II
- Located in the Louvre Museum, Abu Dhabi.
- 259 cm x 80 cm x 117 cm.
- Three Egyptian sarcophagi
- From the 22nd Dynasty of Egypt, 945 – 712 BCE. The sarcophagi belong to Pa-di-mut, Mut-iy-y, and Ankh-Khonsu respectively.
- Size: 223 cm x 61 cm x 53 cm aprox.
- APIS BULL
- AD 117–138. Alexandria. Greco-Roman Museum, Alexandria.
- 190 x 250 x 70,4 cm.
- Sphinx of Hatshepsut
- 1479–1458 B.C.
- Metropolitan Museum
- This colossal sphinx portrays the female pharaoh Hatshepsut with the body of a lion and a human head wearing a nemes–headcloth and false beard. The sculptor has carefully observed the powerful muscles of the lion as contrasted to the handsome, idealized face of the pharaoh. It was one of at least six granite sphinxes that stood in Hatshepsut’s mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri.
- 164 cm x 343 cm.
- Statue of Sekhmet, the Lion-goddess
- 1300 BCE, Egypt.
- Musée du Cinquantenaire (Brussels, Belgium).
- Sekhmet is a warrior goddess as well as goddess of healing. She is depicted as a lioness, the fiercest hunter known to the Egyptians. It was said that her breath formed the desert.
- 233 cm x 53 cm x 94 cm.
- Babaef represented as a scribe II
- Statuette of seated scribe inscribed on front of base for the official Babaef.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition. - 36 x 25.2 x 19 cm
- Head of a Statue of Amenemhat III
- Wearing the White Crown. Provenance unknown; acquired in Cairo, 1894.
Twelfth Dynasty, reign of Amenemhat III (c. 1859–1813 BC). - 46 cm x 18.5 cm x 25.5 cm.
- Head of Menkaure
- 4th Dynasty, Reign of Menkaure.
- Graywacke.
- Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels.
- 24 x 11 x 16 cm
- Kaemwaset Kneeling with an Emblem of Hathor
- Kaemwaset was connected with the temple of Amun-Re at Karnak in Thebes (modern-day Luxor). The inscription on this statue invokes that god, as well as the goddesses Mut and Nebethetepet. It would have enabled the deceased Kaemwaset to share in the daily temple offerings to the gods and to participate in the daily rites of resurrection.
- 66.3 x 26 x 45.3cm
- King Menkaure (Mycerinus) and queen Khamerernebty II
- Serene ethereal beauty, raw royal power, and evidence of artistic virtuosity have rarely been simultaneously captured as well as in this breathtaking, nearly life-size statue of the pharaoh Menkaure and a queen from c. 2490–2472 B.C.E. Smooth as silk, the meticulously finished surface of the dark stone captures the physical ideals of the time and creates a sense of eternity and immortality even today.
- 142 cm x 57 cm x 55 cm
- Kneeling statue of Amenhotep II offering two vases
- 152 x 57 x 79 cm.
- Statue of Priest Ahmose and his mother
- Currently housed in the Brooklyn Museum, is made of limestone. This ancient Egyptian statue dates back to the New Kingdom, specifically the 18th Dynasty (ca. 1550–1292 BCE).
- 115 cm x 39 cm x 61 cm.
- Statue of Ramesses III
- Beth Shean, 1185-1153 BCE, Basalt.
“This life-size statue depicts the seated figure of Ramesses III, who ruled Egypt for 32 years and who is often considered the last great pharoh of ancient Egypt. It was probably dedicated to a cannanite temple in Beth Shean, but was found broken and mutilated in a secondary context. The statue may have been installed as a form of Egyptian propaganda- an attempt to exercise power when Egypt’s actual hold over canaan was in decline. “
Located in the Israel Museum. - 155cm x 50 x 73 cm
- Rosetta Stone
- 123 x 75 x 28,4 cm
- Statue of Sekhmet, the Lion-goddess
- 1300 BCE, Egypt.
- Musée du Cinquantenaire (Brussels, Belgium).
- Sekhmet is a warrior goddess as well as goddess of healing. She is depicted as a lioness, the fiercest hunter known to the Egyptians. It was said that her breath formed the desert.
- 233 cm x 53 cm x 94 cm.