The exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, from 19 October 2022 to 26 February 2023, Pier Paolo Pasolini. EVERYTHING IS HOLY. The poetic body – curated by Giuseppe Garrera, Cesare Pietroiusti, Clara Tosi Pamphili and Olivier Saillard (co-curator for the section dedicated to costumes) – presents exclusively original materials: a careful selection of over 700 pieces that make up a portrait "corporeal" and unpublished by the great Italian intellectual: vintage photographs, newspapers of the time, first editions of books, magazines in which interviews, articles, interventions appeared for the first time, and then typescripts, mimeographed, films, records, tapes, and over 100 costumes and stage outfits. An exhibition which, in every part, speaks of love for things and bodies, in the name of the sanctity of reality.

Even the articles in magazines and newspapers of the time are exhibited in the exciting integrity of their first appearance and "incarnation" in the world. For each quotation, therefore, the source in its material reality is not only indicated but also exhibited: for example, the complete copy of the «Corriere della sera» of 19 January 1975 in which Pasolini's article "against abortion" appeared , an ephemeral object but with a content and a story that is still dynamite. In this investigation, together with newspapers and magazines, the book as an object becomes the powerful incarnation of the word and perhaps takes on the most important part of Pasolini's corpus: we start from the adolescent dream , to print his own booklet of poems (at his own expense, artisanal, naive, wonderful) up to the great publications, to the collections that mark the arrival of notoriety. For Pasolini, the passion for publishing books is linked to the desire to spread thoughts, visions and torments, in a continuous dialogue with people, with the public, with the people; a dialogue between 1960 and 1975 made up of columns, interviews, continuous interventions in newspapers and weeklies. The weekly columns in «Vie Nuove» (“Dialoghi con Pasolini”) and in «Tempo» (first then "Letture") up to the collaboration with the "Corriere della sera", clearly trace a Pasolini who has always been a "pirater": all of his journalistic production has the value of an extraordinary Zibaldone of thoughts and struggle: it is in the dialogue, in the encounter with others which is the most poetic experience of bodies.

The exhibition is divided into seven thematic sections: Face – People are saints ; mockery – The language of the fathers ; Feminine – The sacred that is taken away from us ; Dresses – The costumes of the body ; Voices – Of the people and of the poet ; Match - The real Italy, out of the darkness ; Rome – The city in the street and Rome – Accomplice Sodom . At the center of the exhibition itinerary, the circular space of the Rotonda of Palazzo delle Esposizioni is transformed into a large reading room in which there are numerous editions of books on and by Pier Paolo Pasolini that can be freely used by the public.