Olive Leaves Memories

Olive Leaves Memories is a folding book that pays homage to the olive tree in a time when unfolding violence has impeded what should have been a sacred harvest season.

The handmade book holds space for the olive tree and recalls its stories through a visual record of its traces and marks. By embedding the leaves within recycled plastic and using them to form photograms, it is a multifaceted and collaborative endeavour between the artist and the olive tree. The book itself is bound with threads dyed with pigment extracted from the olive leaves.

The book is a call to listen to the land and its memories, with particular reference to the olive tree, its ancestral significance, and its capability of outliving generations.

The curator

Tamara Kalo

Tamara Kalo is a Lebanese-French interdisciplinary artist formally trained in architecture. She incorporates light and time-based media such as photography, video, sculpture, and performance to investigate narratives that shape home, displacement, and identity.

She examines the spaces between dichotomies, such as public and private, and comfort and discomfort, using embodied knowledge and research to reframe internal and external landscapes through fragmentation and repetition. By juxtaposing familiar materials and objects, she seeks to represent the fragility of what lies between a moment in time and place and its memory in both her personal and the collective subconscious.

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