The Truth Is In The Soil

Ioanna Sakellaraki's The Truth is in the Soil is a five-year exploration of mourning as an elegy to his father and to the tradition of mourning that is dying in Greece. After his personal loss, Sakellaraki's grieving process is has become the lens through which she studies collective mourning in the Greek society, the intersection of ancestral rituals, private trauma and the passage of time. Inspired by the last communities of mourners of the Mani Peninsula, Greece, as the deans of a tradition in the process of disappearance, the work incorporates a new type of subjectivity, intimacy and critical, exploring mortuary rituals as a way for humans to adapt to death.