MEMORIALE - THE OLIVE TREE IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGY

Multidisciplinary project, 2024.
Ex Convento dei Cappuccini, Mesagne.

The exhibition consisted of four sections:

Installation: olive tree;
Audio recordings of root disposal;
Graphics of the anthropogenic components behind the bacterium;
“Xylella is just a symptom of a much larger problem”, short footage;

"Memoriale" features a young olive tree killed by the Xylella bacterium, which the artist personally uprooted and equipped with an automatic bleeding system. The work aims to reflect on the entirely anthropogenic causes that have favored, or rather allowed, the spread of the disease, bringing with it serious environmental, economic, social, and landscape consequences.