Torino is a city that has managed to reinvent itself several times throughout its history. After losing its status as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy in 1865, it forged new identities through industry, culture, fashion, art and innovation. It is precisely this process of transformation that forms the starting point for *Il corpo della città* (The Body of the City), the new exhibition at Palazzo Madama, which recounts a century of Turin’s history through the body: depicted, clothed, disciplined, liberated and transformed by the profound changes of modern society.
Through paintings, sculptures, garments, photographs, posters and documents, the exhibition takes visitors on a journey marked by major expositions, from the 1884 Italian General Exposition to the grand Italia ’61 exhibition, and invites reflection on the city as a living organism, in constant transformation, and on the body as the place where the changes of modernity become visible.