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Survival Kit | Nuccio 2/99

Deborah Ligorio, Survival Kit - Nuccio 2/99, 2013, tin can, photo frame, 12x14x9cm.



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.