Nothing™️: Federico Pepe's itinerant project on emptiness launches at GAM Torino

Federico Pepe, born in Omegna, Piedmont in 1976, is an artist, publisher, cultural figure, designer, and founder of Le Dictateur (2006), an editorial project and exhibition space recognized internationally through participation in MoMA's Millennium Magazine, Tate Modern's No Soul for Sale, Family Business in New York, and Palais de Tokyo in Paris. His latest project, Nothing™️, curated by Elena Volpato, reconsiders emptiness, transforming absence into presence across multiple venues in Italy and abroad. The first stop opens April 1, 2025 at GAM – Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin as part of Esterno GAM, then moves to MAMbo in Bologna, and concludes at two major galleries in Paris and Milan. In Milan, the project includes an exhibition at Galleria Le Dictateur in Via Melzo, a fake shop selling emptiness via a screen projecting nonexistent shelves and objects, and a swarm of riders delivering invisible packages. Volpato asks: 'If accepting nothing and immersing oneself in it were the origin of all possibilities, of every creative possibility, of the freedom to act? If nothing were the condition that makes everything possible? Nothing would then be the prime mover that sets the dance in motion.'