Re-birth investigates how trauma can be a resource rather than a wound, how mourning can be an action that grows fruit, a generative analysis of a territory, rather than a passive look at the withering flower. It is by bringing society together that we can begin to heal the wound of communities.
The ‘Re-Birth’ installation stands on ashes scattered on the land in Puglia, southern Italy. These are the ashes of olive trees that made Puglia one of the mildest climates in the world. Olives are a major economy here, but the trees are now heavily affec