Aterraterra, COMUNITÀ POSTVARIETALI, 2025

Palermo Publishing announces the release of Ecosistemi connessi. Museo e Comunità Post-varietali, a volume developed from the project of the same name curated by Maria Rosa Sossai and carried out in 2025 by the artistic duo Aterraterra (Fabio Aranzulla and Luca Cinquemani) for the Museo Civico di Castelbuono.

The book documents a research process that examines the relationship between human and vegetal worlds through artistic, ecological, and community-based practices. Central to the project is the activation of a post-varietal tomato community within the Orto dell’arte of the Museo Civico di Castelbuono, generated by the encounter of twenty-five wild and cultivated species. An architectural device, designed in collaboration with Elena Catalano, accompanied the hybridization process, transforming the garden into a fluid and evolving ecosystem.

The volume gathers critical texts, scientific materials, photographs, and documentation of the public activities that shaped the project, expanding its dialogue with communities, institutions, and visitors. Conceived as a collective narrative, it reflects on the museum as a living organism sustained by multispecies connections.