With chrysalis, the BPS22 inaugurates a new summer event dedicated to its collections. Each year, a selection of works will emerge from the shadows of the storage rooms into the light of the museum, offering a renewed and singular perspective on the collection. This initial chapter draws inspiration from the Latin word chrysalis, denoting the cocooning stage – a state of latency in which matter prepares itself to be reborn in another form. The exhibition seizes this fragile instant of meta­mor­pho­sis, suspended between two shapes, two worlds, between what is no more and what is not yet – a moment in which reality holds its breath, when everything shifts without yet revealing itself.