Le vesti delle confraternite tra culto e cultura alla mostra Habitus Fidei

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.