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Adelisa Selimbašić | The Dancefloor
curated by Michele Spinelli , 21 March - 6 May 2026

Adelisa Selimbašić | The Dancefloor: curated by Michele Spinelli

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Adelisa Selimbašić | The Dancefloor, curated by Michele Spinelli
z2o Sara Zanin is pleased to present The Dancefloor, a solo exhibition by Adelisa Selimbašić, this time invited to engage with the gallery’s space at Via Alessandro Volta 34.

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On March 21, 2026, z2o Sara Zanin inaugurates The Dancefloor, the second solo exhibition by Adelisa Selimbašić, curated by Michele Spinelli, engaging with the spaces of  Via Alessandro Volta 34 in Rome.
The exhibition marks the artist’s first engagement with the architecture of the gallery’s new exhibition space and coincides with a substantial new body of paintings that introduces a decisive development in her artistic trajectory. Over the years, Selimbašić has developed a recognizable visual language grounded in an essential form of painting that focuses on the human body as a site of both formal and emotional inquiry. Her works strip away narrative and scenographic elements, presenting the body instead as an unstable and relational structure.
In this series the artist also introduces a shift on a chromatic level: the palette becomes more compressed and controlled, with nearly monochrome fields that hold the image in a dense suspension, intensifying its internal tension.
While the title suggests a collective and rhythmic dimension, the works deliberately avoid any descriptive approach. Rather than representing a recognizable imagery, Selimbašić absorbs a stratified cultural memory. The compositions focus on legs—fleshy columns and segments traversed by a constant tension, balanced between control and movement. Knees bend, muscles compress, and lines acquire a sculptural quality. Tights, conceived as a political skin historically associated with the construction of femininity and the performance of gender, generate transparencies and chromatic vibrations that interact with backgrounds reduced to their essential form.
What emerges is an image of the body as the temporary architecture of a fragile community. In dialogue with the spaces of Via Alessandro Volta, the large-scale works amplify the gallery’s verticality and construct a path in which visitors are invited to physically measure themselves against the images.
 

 

Il 21 marzo 2026 z2o Sara Zanin inaugura, negli spazi di via Alessandro Volta 34 a Roma, The Dancefloor, seconda mostra personale di Adelisa Selimbašić, a cura di Michele Spinelli.

 

L’esposizione segna il primo confronto dell’artista con l’architettura del nuovo spazio espositivo della galleria e coincide con una poderosa produzione pittorica che introduce un’evoluzione decisiva nel suo percorso artistico. Negli anni Selimbašić ha costruito un linguaggio riconoscibile, fondato su una pittura essenziale, concentrata sul corpo umano come campo di ricerca plastica ed emotiva. I suoi dipinti eliminano ogni elemento narrativo e scenografico restituendo il corpo come struttura instabile e relazionale.

 

In questa serie l’artista compie un cambio di passo anche sul piano cromatico, la tavolozza si fa più compressa e controllata, grazie a campiture quasi monocrome che trattengono l’immagine in una sospensione densa, accentuandone un conflitto interno.

 

Il titolo suggerisce una dimensione collettiva e ritmica, si evita qualsiasi approccio descrittivo, piuttosto che rappresentare un immaginario riconoscibile, Selimbašić assorbe una memoria culturale stratificata. Le composizioni si concentrano sulle gambe, colonne carnali e segmenti attraversati da una tensione costante, in equilibrio tra controllo e movimento. Le ginocchia flettono, i muscoli si comprimono, le linee si fanno scultoree. I collant, intesi come una pelle politica, storicamente associata alla costruzione della femminilità e alla performance di genere, producono trasparenze e vibrazioni cromatiche che dialogano con fondi ridotti all’essenziale.

 

Ne emerge un’immagine del corpo come architettura momentanea di una comunità fragile.

Nel dialogo con gli spazi di via Alessandro Volta, le opere di grande formato amplificano le verticalità della galleria e costruiscono un percorso in cui il visitatore è chiamato a misurarsi fisicamente con le immagini.

 

For further press material please contact info@z2ogalleria.it.

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Adelisa Selimbašić | The Dancefloor

curated by Michele Spinelli

Opening Saturday, March 21,  2026 | 4-9 pm

March 21 → May 6 2026

z2o Sara Zanin, via Alessandro Volta 34 – 00153 Roma
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Saturday | 12-7 pm
T. +39 06 80073146 | info@z2ogalleria.it
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