Borgo Taccone, the heart of Basilicata and of the agrarian reform of the 1950s. Borgo Taccone, the place chosen by the Constituente Contadina to unite, in 1977, young people who asked to exploit public lands and develop an agriculture more sensitive to the territory and closer to the needs of the community and nature.
Borgo Taccone, an agricultural village in a state of semi-neglect where only four families have decided to stay. A few kilometers away, those same houses emptied by the Italian emigrants of the past, today without electricity, water and sanitation, are repopulated by foreign laborers.
Abandoned voids. Emptiness lived.
In this context, the community project funded by the Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation was born. A project that led to reliving the places of abandonment, weaving a network of memories and relationships with the community that remained within the Borgo and with those, mainly from from sub-Saharan Africa, they live seasonally in other abandoned agricultural residences not far away