Livia

This works title is in reference to Livia’s Garden, a fresco where dining rituals framed by Symbolism of Roman gardens, created a multisensory experience and 3D paradisus. Originally in Prima Porta in the North of Rome, it was an immersive space that defied the semi-subterranean dining room’s setting now transported to the Museum in Palazzo Massimo, depicting fantastical vegetation, plants, flowers and a variety of birds in motion which haptically evoke the movement, smells and sounds of a living garden. Bringing this experience to an interior space through a lemon tree locally sourced in Rome, the gesture creates a fictive space for the imagination to engage with this experience and intermedial social setting of the fresco.

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