A Proposal for Syncretism – This Time Without Genocide

The project was born from some tiles found on the stalls of the market in Piazza Marina in Palermo with depictions of exotic Brazilian parrots: fragments of a rather common ornamental motif in Palermo, known as 'birds of paradise', composed of depictions of exotic and local birds that they are usually represented on plaques that celebrated events such as the inauguration of a new castle or a prestigious residence.
The project intends to allude to the geographical and gastronomic landscape of Sicily, where the prickly pear and agave from Mexico, the tomatoes and potatoes from the Andes, the trees of Jacaranda and Ceiba speciosa from Brazil, form a new syncretism, sometimes assimilated by Sicilian in contemporary definitions of the region. The project also alludes to the Brazilian parrots: birds capable of escaping from the captivity to which they are forced without having ever committed any crime.