The article examines the Habitus fidei exhibition of Catholic confraternities’ garments in order to explore the role of religious dress as a tool for identity- construction and symbolic mediation between the individual and the community. Through a multisensory display strategy, the exhibition gives these robes back their living function, capable of evoking communal belonging, ritual practice, and the intersubjective experience of faith. The text compares Habitus Fidei with other international exhibition models, highlighting how the study of religious clothing offers a lens through which to explore the tensions between sacred and spectacle, memory and contemporaneity, visibility and belonging within museum space.
L’articolo prende in esame la mostra Habitus fidei, dedicata alle vesti delle confraternite, per indagare il ruolo dell’abito religioso come strumento di costruzione identitaria e mediazione simbolica tra individuo e collettività. Attraverso un allestimento multisensoriale, la mostra restituisce all’abito una funzione viva, capace di evocare la dimensione comunitaria, la pratica rituale e l’esperienza intersoggettiva della fede. Il testo mette a confronto Habitus fidei con altri modelli espositivi internazionali, evidenziando come la riflessione sull’abito religioso consenta di esplorare le tensioni tra sacro e spettacolo, memoria e contemporaneità, visibilità e appartenenza, all’interno dello spazio del museo.
Lena, A.P. (2025). Le vesti delle confraternite tra culto e cultura alla mostra Habitus Fidei. ARTES, IV, 131-149 [10.60923/issn.2974-7287/23582].
Le vesti delle confraternite tra culto e cultura alla mostra Habitus Fidei
Lena, Alessandro Paolo
2025
Abstract
The article examines the Habitus fidei exhibition of Catholic confraternities’ garments in order to explore the role of religious dress as a tool for identity- construction and symbolic mediation between the individual and the community. Through a multisensory display strategy, the exhibition gives these robes back their living function, capable of evoking communal belonging, ritual practice, and the intersubjective experience of faith. The text compares Habitus Fidei with other international exhibition models, highlighting how the study of religious clothing offers a lens through which to explore the tensions between sacred and spectacle, memory and contemporaneity, visibility and belonging within museum space.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


