The stone slab is a fragment from an opulent staging. Originally, an area of 450 m² was covered with these reddish-gray, shimmering marble slabs. In 2017, Argentine artist Adrian Villar-Rojas transformed one floor of Peter Zumthor's Kunsthaus Bregenz into an oversized cave. The walls featured mysterious petroglyphs and Brazilian graffiti, while on the ceiling, ivy vines entwined in an oppressive light and the floor was a somber, archaeological site. The stones that could be walked on were from Morocco. The fossils were uncovered by hand while still in the quarry as semi-reliefs; 400-million-year-old ammonites can be identified, along with long-limbed primordial creatures, Orthoceras, and plankton animals. Villar-Rojas combined the Paleozoic with fantasies of the future. He discovered an apocalyptic end of times in the prehistoric age, and in creatures that knew no human contact.

Thomas D. Trummer, 2021 (translation: Virginia Dellenbaugh)