The Orestea of Gibellina – theatrical installation by Emilio Isgrò

In collaboration with Festival delle Orestiadi

In 1981, on the ruins of old Gibellina, before Burri's Cretto definitively transformed the landscape, Ludovico Corrao commissioned Emilio Isgrò to create a new Oresteia in “poetic Sicilian”, as a founding ritual for the rebuilt city. Forty-five years later, Isgrò returns to Gibellina with a new site-specific theatrical installation on the Cretto: a journey in which the artist's words and erasures intertwine with voices, sounds and lights, from sunset to deep darkness. The action renews the original gesture, relaunching a message of cultural rebirth in a time marked by new crises and “civilisational earthquakes”. .