Puglia · 2014
Orto Parisi
Alessandro Gualtieri opened Orto Parisi in 2014 and dedicated it to his grandfather Vincenzo Parisi. Vincenzo worked a garden in Puglia. He collected what the body left behind in buckets, and that is what fertilised the soil. Gualtieri has said an air of infinity always hung over that garden. The house treats the body the same way: skin as soil, smell as a record of the soul.
The parts of the body that carry more smell are those where more soul is collected.
Alessandro Gualtieri
Manifesto
The parts of the body that carry more smell are those where more soul is collected.
The strong smells have become unpleasant to us, because the excess of soul is intolerable to the extent that our innate animalism is repressed by our civilisation.
This project is my garden I have planted, fertilized, cultivated, and harvested. Orto Parisi states that our body is experienced like a garden, and its smells are a true mirror of our soul.
The idea rooted from the fact that he, my grandfather Vincenzo, used buckets to collect both his needs that timely ended up fertilizing the garden. In this garden has always hovered an air of infinity.
In the house
