Tradurre: Therapeutic Landscape in Gibellina Vecchia

Inspired by Arakawa and Gin’s Site of Reversible Destiny, the aim of this proposal is to create a contextualising therapeutic site of remembrance and shared spiritual salvation. This project imagines the sense of disorientation that residents of Gibellina Vecchia would have felt in the aftermath of the 1968 Belice earthquake. In lieu of burying the debris under the Cretto (artwork by Alberto Burri), the proposal views the entirety of the ruins as alternative grounds and spaces in multiple dimensions to provide both social and spiritual realms, interacting and resonating with generations’ perceptions of their fabricated conditions and contested realities. The symbolic appearance and the meanings and everyday community activities associated with the fusion of ruins and new Gibellina, come together to create an evocative diagnostic and healing milieu.