Leather, the inspiration of Turin Spirituality 2022

Come of age Turin Spirituality 2022the event organized by Circle of Readers of Turinwith the collaboration of Piemonte region, Metropolitan City, Compagnia di San Paolo And CRT Foundationand gives us an appointment on September 29 for the new edition. Although the beating heart of Turin Spirituality always remains the Circle of Readersthe datingdistributed over four days, will be disseminated throughout the city territoryhoused in bookshops, clubs, cinemas, museums and churches.

Not just meetings and conferences with big names on the Italian and international cultural scenelike the Nobel Prize Orhan PamukPaul NoriStefano Mancuso, Nicola JoyFrank Westerman, Oliviero Toscani, and Massimo Recalculate (to name a few, the complete program is available on the website of Turin Spirituality 2022), but also the Spiritual walks in the Piedmontese province, the experiential workshops of Otium schooland the guided tours in various places in Turin, from the Monumental Cemetery to the Church of San Lorenzo, to be observed with a new lens.

An unmissable appointment to investigate and reflect on the “profound meaning of our being and of our time“. A four-day dating, debates, meditations And readingsled by writers, philosophers, theologians and artists, whose purpose is not to give answers, but to suggest questions. Of arouse curiosity. Of invite reflectionstarting from the multiplicity of perspectives offered. Each year one element acts as North Star around which the various reflections revolve: after the latest editions dedicated to Desiderio, Breath and Night, this year the suggestion that inspires Turin Spirituality 2022 and it will be fil rouge of all encounters is Skin: the deep surface.
The skin understood as border but also how theshold: it separates the inside from the outside, but at the same time it is the place where what is intimate and internal emerges on the surface and meets the outside world, as he tells Armando Buonaiutocurator of Torino Spirituality 2022, in the editorial that motivates and presents the theme of this edition.

“There is nothing deeper than the skin”, said Paul Valèry, and in fact the skin becomes somehow map of our route, individual memory: wrinkles, moles, tattoos and scars are the signs that life has left on this great one of ours epidermal archive, are marks of our singularity and witnesses of our experience. Not by chance the image chosen to represent this edition is a lava rock inlaid with small remnants of flowers: “traces of an improbable and poetic contact, lasting like flowers crystallized forever in stone“.
This eighteenth edition will therefore revolve around the theme of skin, declined in different manifestations: from the human epidermis and its color to the borders in an extended sense; from the written page to the skin in art; from the faux leather of the screens touch to the human sense of touch.