“Spectators will feel they are taking part in a poetic event that forces them to search their minds and find a moment of metaphysical detachment from established certainties, from lovable remains”, is how curator Katy Ferrante describes the “Amabili Resti” exhibition by Iris Broquedis, which will open on 20th June, at 7.30 p.m., at the Italian Institute of Culture in Santiago, Chile. Organised by the Institute of Culture with the cooperation of the Italian Embassy, the exhibition is the second in the annual “Incontri 1” project, which aims to investigate, through a variety of artistic disciplines, the cultural relations between Italy and Chile. In “Amabili Resti”, the protagonists are fabrics and textiles: “The suspended clothes – explains the curator – are empty shells that tells us who we were, where we come from, with the ballast of prejudice and fear we have to jettison. As her material, the artist uses paper, gauzes, stitching, acting as a kind of surgeon of the soul who leaves scars like knots of nostalgia”. The show will be open to the public until 22nd July.