📷 Patrick Rüegg“To your right, beneath the image of Saint Charles Borromeo praying at the foot of the cross, you will find the installation U.N.A.I.D.S. by Spanish artist Samuel Perea-Díaz. The work, composed of a spherical sound box and an electric cable engraved with graffiti, symbolically represents the heartbeat frequency corresponding to the global number of deaths from AIDS-related causes. The artwork is displayed “switched off,” not connected to the internet, as a protest against the planned shutdown in 2026 – due to funding cuts – of U.N.A.I.D.S., the largest UN-recognized data collection system on the epidemic. The installation’s real and emotional “silence” becomes, at the same time, a resounding appeal to resume speaking about AIDS/HIV correctly, scientifically, socially, and anthropologically, without hiding the stigma that still affects people living with HIV.”
Sebastiano Bazzichetto
“U.N.A.I.D.S” is part of the instalation Hearing Silence. It was exhibited in the show
HABITUS. Fashion as a Means to Sexual Healt, curated by Sebastiano Bazzichetto
The exhibition was open to the public from 28 November 2025 to 11 January 2026, and could be visited on Saturdays and Sundays from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.