Body That Rises is a 7m-high sculpture built from 74 wood beams stacked to form a rising, square grid. As artist João Trevisan explains, “The piece is designed for the Giza plateau, and I’d like viewers to imagine that the shape echoes the framework of a large obelisk pointing skyward.”

The project includes a vertically mounted structure that points to the Egyptian sky, a sculpture for viewing on the Giza Plateau in Forever Is Now. The use of Trevisan’s signature wood railroad sleepers engages Egypt’s immediate past—the train tracks laid down in the 19th century. And in their pure vertical form the vertical columns of both proposals directly reference skyward-pointing obelisks of the ancient past.