Young Yena’s 30 Million Years Under the Pavilion explores the primordial time and space of the Korean Pavilion. Developing through a fictional narrative, the work is the result of collaboration with a biologist, a cultural anthropologist, and a genetic sociologist. Engaging with the narrative of the site itself, the installation is situated both underneath the piloti-elevated space of the structure and within the century-old brick building: both the physical origins of the Korean Pavilion. Young Yena summons imaginary guardians of the land, buried millions of years ago, seeking to resonate with a prehistoric temporal axis that far precedes the early history of the Giardini, founded by Napoleon I. 30 Million Years Under the Pavilion awakens a transcendental awareness of the unknown life forms that inhabited the land before the concept of nation-state was invented.