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More than any other city, Los Angeles is shaped by the immigrants who make it their home. So it’s fitting that, in a new show at Bermudez Projects, an immigrant is breathing new life into another transplant that has been a ubiquitous symbol of the city since the 1930s. In Candles Burning in the Wind, Francesca Bifulco’s debut solo show at the gallery, the artist presents the iconic palm tree in a style that will surprise even the most jaded Angeleno.

Bilfulco was born in the town of Pæstum in Southern Italy, “literally across the street from the ruins of three Greco-Roman temples,” and to …