The video captures the moving unveiling of “Cartomastodonte”, the monumental work created by artist Daniele Papuli in collaboration with the entire community. More than just an installation, it stands as a true architecture of memory: 35,000 books saved from the pulping mill were rescued from oblivion and transformed into a vibrant structure – a plastic mass capable of welcoming and uniting the local area through creative recycling and sculptural precision.

Over 130 people gathered alongside members of the organization and leading local institutions – the Regional Polo Bibliomuseale and the Municipality of Nardò – to seal a pact for cultural rebirth founded on the transformation of waste. The culminating moment was the activation of the work through the language of the body: the encounter with Butoh dancer Alberto Cacopardi and the Tessuto Corporeo collective transformed the installation into a living stage. Here, the rigidity of the layered paper engaged in a dialogue with the fluidity of movement, breathing new life into a heritage that was once destined for destruction.

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