THE WALL OF DELICACY (ode to America), dried rosebuds, steel, concrete, environmental dimension

THE WALL OF DELICACY at BAM  Festival, Palermo 13 x 2,20 x 0,50 meters

Raw and delicate, a rosebuds wall. A meditative practice. A reflection on ephemeral, beauty, delicacy. 
The practice is realized through simple and graceful gestures: inserting, one after the other, rosebuds in a metal wire, paying attention not to damage them, and observing their petals that inevitably fall to the ground immersed in their scent.
An installation that in its aesthetics refers, overturning its meaning, to the barbed wire used at the borders between Countries.
Born as a site-specific installation during my residency at MASS MoCA, USA it has turned into a traveling and participatory project.
In May 2019 it took part in BienNoLo, a biennial show of contemporary art in Milan, Italy, and in December 2019, the project took part in BAM Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo in Palermo, Italy.
From the 1st to the 6th of December, 2020 in Piazza Pretoria, Palermo, I invited citizens to take part in the meditation practice and in the realization of the installation. 
On the 7th of December, THE WALL OF DELICACY was installed in Piazza Pretoria, Palermo, dividing the square in two.
It’s a light, modular installation, and every time THE WALL OF DELICACY is installed, it contains older versions of it along new parts made as a result of the participatory meditative practice.