The Truth is in the Soil by Ioanna Sakellaraki is a five-year exploration of grief, an elegy to her late father and to the dying tradition of mourning in Greece. After her personal loss, Sakellaraki's own grieving process became the lens through which she investigated collective mourning in Greek society, the intersection of ancestral rituals, private trauma and the passage of time. Further inspired by the last communities of mourners on the Mani Peninsula of Greece, as the doyennes of a dying tradition, the work explores mortuary rituals as a way of humans adapting to death. The images—landscapes and portraits—derive from Sakellaraki's medium-format photographs; through both manual and digital processes she adds layers to what has been documented as real, rerouting the viewer through existing and imaginary spaces. Silhouettes of mourners gazing at mountain ranges appear weathered, time-worn and fragile, with cracks and damage, while other images are cut out and marked. There is a versatility in the imagery, shifting from black and white to colour, the abstract to the figurative—a visual representation of the gradual and irreversible loss of the departed and the simultaneous reconstruction of memory.