The temporary exhibition will welcome around thirty masks and small statues belonging to the Lega people of the D.R. Congo.

The objects displayed here are not simple artistic artifacts. They are living testimonies of a spirituality that intertwines matter, actions, and sounds to engage with the sacred.

The ritual, in its essence as a universal language made of gestures, symbols, and words, makes possible the relationship between the community and the invisible world - ancestors, deities, natural forces. It is a "different" time and space, where the community rediscovers identity, cohesion, and memory.

Lega art is didactic art, born as a tool to transmit the values and teachings of their traditional society. The Bwami, figurines, masks, and other objects are thus imbued with symbolic meaning and become guardians and mediators of ideas and teachings.

A population traditionally without writing develops a tangible communication that remains and endures over time, transmitting guidelines, values, and behaviors to learn and pass on through the sacralization of images.

Approaching these artifacts means coming into contact with a universal heritage that tells of the human search for meaning, belonging, and transcendence. The object thus becomes the indispensable support to proceed and reach the ancestral need for wisdom and morality. The works, mainly made of wood, bones, clay, and plant elements, will lead the visitor to discover a mosaic of elements that generate a rare beauty artistic-cultural heritage.