Festival Delle Scienze Roma
Foyer Sinopoli
Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Rome

In collaboration with the Sylva Foundation

Xylella fastidiosa is a phytopathogen associated with serious diseases in a wide range of plants. In Europe it was first detected in 2013 on olive trees in southern Puglia, and then spread to France, Spain and Portugal. In less than a decade it has led to the rapid drying of more than 20 million olive trees in Salento, where the monoculture of the olive tree is widespread. In 2021 the Sylva Foundation, which carries out land redevelopment activities mainly through reforestation, commissioned the famous photographer Edward Burtynsky to document the environmental disaster that occurred in the olive groves in Puglia. A selection of ten prints of his work is hosted in this Festival exhibition and at the Pino Pascali Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art.