Sacred Roots: Ancestral Dialogues in Salento

Installazione: Performance, photographed, mixed media and video art. 2024

Location: Pineta di Santa Caterina

Sacred Roots: Ancestral Dialogues in Salento is a performative land art piece that explores the deep connection between nature, mythology, and personal heritage in the Santa Caterina area of Salento, Italy. In this performance, I explore the interplay between nature, mythology, and personal memory by integrating with a towering pine tree, symbolizing a return to origins and an intimate connection with ancestral wisdom. Resting my body in a fetal position at the base of the tree, my hair entwined with its roots, I embody the cyclical patterns of life, heritage, and transformation, symbolizing a return to the womb of the earth.

Baroque Blue 2024 Ionian Sea Art Residency

Citta’ Di Nardo

THE THREE WORLD OF THE VISION: THE LOWER WORLD

Under the title “Sacred Roots: Ancestral Dialogues in Salento,” a performance by Argentinian artist JIMENA ANDREA MURABITO takes shape. A Land Art installation work that explores the deep connection between nature, mythology, and personal memory in the Santa Caterina area. In black-and-white photographs that evoke moments of action, the artist uses her body as canvas and nature as muse, influenced by ancestral roots and shamanic connections. Her body, in a fetal position, interacts with a towering pine tree, whose roots are connected to her hair. Complementing her work is a multi-material and symbolic installation with material found on-site and video art featuring her in water in a continuum between heartbeats and organic connection with the elements of nature. Her works promote an organic dialogue between nature and human beings, life cycle and ancestral wisdom, transformation and purification, and present and return to origins.

MFA project Video, Sound, Performance for Professor Millie Chen’s course, Installation: Urban Space, Fall 2023, University at Buffalo.

Project 3: TIME

Proposal

"Cycles of Popping" — sound installation seeking to encapsulate the essence of

beginnings and ends through the metaphor of an air-popped popcorn cycle. Using the

sound recording of an air popcorn machine, I look to explore the temporal context of

transformation, drawing parallels between the life cycle of popcorn and the broader,

abstract concepts of time, creation, and culmination.

Conceptual frame

Air popcorn machine—a device that embody transformation. An invitation to

meditate on the process of popcorn popping as a journey from potential to

actualization; a microcosm of life itself, where the kernel represents inception and the

popcorn signifies completion. I will record the echoed in the soundscape, which is

both the medium and the message.

Duration: (what ever takes the kernel to pop)

Notes: A continuation on, ~ Meditations on Corn ~ meditation on the rhythm of

existence. It challenges to find beauty and meaning in the simple, the everyday, and

the overlooked. Bringing awareness to the sound of kernel being pupped in an air

popcorn machine, to present a unique auditory narrative that speaks to the cyclic

nature of time and existence—reminding us that every end is, in itself, a precursor to

a new beginning.