"With my eyes" will do everything possible to encourage the construction of a culture of meeting and taking care of others, the nerve centers of Pope Francis' magisterium: « From this desire - they explain from the Holy See Press Office - are born interweaving stories that may often seem foreign to us, but which in reality concern everyone, because they tell of the same hunger for love, the same desire for life, for affection, the same restlessness of meaning, everything that art has always tried to reflect and represent."
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The project will therefore range between workshops and installations, dance and cinema, performance and painting, thus generating a positive (and unprecedented) energy capable of overturning both artistic and prison conventions.
How? Every artist will put their own spin on it.
La Tabouret, for example, will present portraits of the prisoners as children: each of them will symbolize dignity, identity and beauty, making art a means of personal rediscovery. Cattelan will sign a large external work, on the façade of the Chapel, with a strong emotional impact.
