The exhibition in the Spazio Cielo at Villa Malpensata is dedicated to the most significant of the many Indian celebrations that animate Hindu temples. The 'Chariot Festival', also known as the 'Great Festival', is a tradition that originated more than a thousand years ago and continues to this day. As complex and varied as the cultural and religious fabric of India is, the festival involves multiple rituals over several days and reaches its climax when the deity leaves the temple to meet his devotees. The deity temporarily leaves the most secret and sacred part of the temple embodied in a sculpture, which is hoisted on the top of majestic chariots, up to 30 metres high, sumptuously decorated and drawn in procession through the streets around the temple. Even the humblest of devotees are thus granted the privilege of darśana, the vision of the divine.The exhibition and its catalogue bring together the results of several years of field research conducted by Giulia Bellentani, a MUSEC scientific collaborator specialising in Indian art and culture and curator of the project. A selection of works from MUSEC can be admired in the exhibition, alongside loans from the Rietberg Museum in Zurich, as well as from the Ethnological Museum of the University of Zurich (E. Kaemmerling's depository), whose objects are presented here to the public for the first time.