BELETAGE

Dimitrina Sevova Samodiva – Wild Reclaiming Space is based on Dimitrina Sevova’s fieldwork in the ruins of the former women's ward of the Ospedale psichiatrico di Volterra complex, now overgrown and reclaimed by nature, and reflects her long-standing interest in the interconnectedness of body, mind, society, environment, and ecology. Starting from the history of psychiatry, the project examines the construction of hysteria in the context of the rise of modern institutions and the social and economic transformations of early industrial capitalism. In the 18th and 19th centuries, psychiatric…