MARGHERITA MURITI

Margherita Muriti is an Italian artist and teacher based in Paris. She graduated from the École de Gobelins (2017) and holds a Master's in Arts & Ecology from Dartington College of Arts (2023). Her transdisciplinary practice weaves together photography, installation, video, sound, and textiles to explore the sensitive relationships between humans and other living beings, placing attention, reciprocity and interconnection at the heart of her approach. Her current research focuses on olive trees as living archives of the Mediterranean landscape, through acts of dressing and poetic experiments that question the symbolic, agricultural, and ecological dimensions of our connections to these trees.

Her work has been presented internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including Les Temps des Choses (Galerie Plateforme, Paris, 2024), the Biennale de l’Image Tangible (Galerie Plateforme, Paris, 2023), Of this World – Envisioning Alternative Cartographies (Capa Center, Budapest, 2021), Fotofestiwal (Łódź, 2021), Landskrona Foto (Sweden, 2020). She also presented solo exhibitions such as God, How Shall I Pray? (Rencontres Internationales de Niort, 2018) and Le Blanc Nuit (cur.Garance Laporte, VAP, Venice, 2019). In addition to her practice, she has co-organised workshops and performances, and in 2025 collaborated with The Nature of Cities as curator of a round table on the theme Kinship with Trees and Forests (2025).

Dressing the Earth: The Olive Tree as Landscape Archive

This ongoing research explores the olive tree as a living archive of memory, care, and loss in Mediterranean landscapes, while reflecting on the centuries-old relationship between humans and olive trees. It follows both the presence and the disappearance of these beings, attending to the transformations of the land they inhabit. Through different artistic gestures, the work engages with individual and collective stories, explores practices of regeneration, and turns toward mourning rituals as ways of reimagining how we might inhabit the landscape with and through the olive trees.