The exhibitions of two international artists will be presented in the Spazio Zero of GAMeC, delving into themes and perspectives of the 2026 program: the first exhibition, from February 26 to September 6, will be dedicated to the work of the Angolan-Portuguese artist Ana Silva (Calulo, 1979), while from October 1 to January 24, the site-specific project of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian artist and activist, of Romani origins, Selma Selman (Bihać, 1991) will be set up.

Eau, Ana Silva's project, addresses one of the most serious crises of our time: access to clean water. The project, created for the Spazio Zero of GAMeC, is born in collaboration with a network of local embroiderers, invited by the artist to intervene on some of her textile works. 

In the production of her works, Silva entrusts the subjects she has conceived and designed to Angolan embroiderers in a first phase — only men are allowed to use sewing machines in Angola — and then completes the works herself by adding decorations, glitter, and sequins by hand. The language of embroidery — traditionally associated with care, memory, and resistance — is used by Ana Silva to delicately denounce the lack of water and to make visible a reality in which water does not represent a right, but a privilege. Each stitch silently testifies to a denied fundamental need, emphasizing the contrast between the delicate gesture of embroidery and the seriousness of the theme. The exhibition space thus transforms into a place of investigation, where textile practice, social and environmental research intertwine, in a political reinterpretation of the everyday.

Selma Selman's project will develop in continuity with the artist's research, drawing inspiration from personal and family experiences to investigate identity, social hierarchies, and conflicts between different forms of knowledge, revealing the discrepancies between official narratives and oral knowledge.