The sixth edition of giardino project, titled “Seme • Pianta • Fiore • Frutto”, is dedicated to the artistic research of Michele Guido, whose practice brings together botany, archaeobotany, ecology, rural architecture, and contemporary art.
Curated by Giuseppe Amedeo Arnesano, this edition offers a critical reading of the agricultural landscape as a dispersed garden—a living organism shaped by human labor, spontaneous ecologies, vernacular architecture, and layered memories. Structured around the natural cycle “Seme • Pianta • Fiore • Frutto” as a process of knowledge, the project reflects on the relationship between land, cultivation, and imagination, transforming the Salento countryside into a space for observation and research.
The project unfolds across two events: 22 July at the garden of Bibliò – Community Library in Trepuzzi and 25 July at the historic Torre Pinta Medieval Masseria, near Otranto. Both events conclude with site-specific sound performances by Roberto Laterza (iii) in Trepuzzi and Alessandro Chieppa at Torre Pinta.