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Survival Kit | The person who kept functioning + Survival Kit | Nuccio


Deborah Ligorio, Survival Kit - The person who kept functioning, 2012, bronze, 22x10x12 cm.



This survival kit is inspired by the story of Elaine. Despite she would hold things carefully they would break. 








Deborah Ligorio, Survival Kit - Nuccio 1/99, 2012, glass container, absorbent material, tin can, paper, rope, 20x16x9cm.


Nuccio always grew his own chicory, his eggplants, his olives, his vineyard on his own piece of land. At 65 he was diagnosed lung cancer. He never smoked. His piece of land lies few kilometers east of Taranto's ILVA steel plant that emitted 92% of Italy's dioxins.