Drawing its name from the Italian word for “almond,” Mandorla refers to a major symbolic figure in Christian iconography: the luminous oval formed by the intersection of two circles, an image of the meeting between the celestial and the terrestrial, the spiritual and the corporeal. The exhibition offers a contemporary reinterpretation of this zone where opposites interpenetrate—a true matrix of the sacred and its multiple reemergences.
Conceived as a journey across thresholds—between ages, cultures, bodies, and imaginaries—Mandorla places a selection of sculptures of female saints carrying their martyrs, from the Musée Krona in Uden (Netherlands), in dialogue with contemporary works. Medieval sculptures, drawings, photographs, installations, videos, and ritual objects come together to celebrate the sanctity of flesh, life, and nature, and the resonance between the intimate and the universal.
