OPEN CALL RULES
Art Safari x Vichy – #UnspokenWords

Section I. INTRODUCTION
Art. 1. Art Safari, in collaboration with Vichy, is launching an open call for the selection of women artists to participate in the group visual art exhibition #UnspokenWords, which will take place at Art Safari between October 16 – December 14, 2025.
Art. 2. Open call theme: menopause — an important, yet often overlooked subject, a time of physical, emotional, and social transformation. Through art, the exhibition aims to open an honest dialogue about the body, femininity, taboos, wisdom, and rebirth.
Women artists are invited to respond, through their creations, to one of the four proposed sub-themes:
1. The Silent Body – how the body transforms without speaking: textures, inner landscapes, gestures, biology;
2. What Is Unseen – a reflection on what society chooses to ignore: absence, erasure, invisibility, marginality;
3. Rituals of Visibility – actions, self-care, expressions that reclaim the self: intimacy, resilience, stylization, resistance;
4. Other Voices – works that speak for or alongside other women (mothers, grandmothers, daughters, strangers): intergenerational visibility, collective memory, oral history.

Section II. ELIGIBILITY
Art. 3. The open call is addressed to visual women artists working in fields such as painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, mixed media, etc.
Art. 4. Both Romanian and international women citizens may apply, regardless of their place of residence.
Art. 5. Traditional techniques (painting, sculpture, graphics) are accepted, as well as interdisciplinary approaches, video, sound, performance, and text-based works.
Art. 6. Employees of Art Safari, Vichy or any other companies involved in organizing the competition, as well as their first-degree relatives, are not eligible to participate.
Art. 7. Submitted works must respect the principles of human dignity and integrity. Materials containing offensive, indecent, discriminatory, or unlawful content will not be accepted.

Section III. APPLICATION
Art. 8. Applications may be submitted until September 30, 2025, by filling in the official form (Art Safari x Vichy Form) and submitting it via the webpage https://www.artsafari.ro/project/open-call/.
Art. 9. Registration is free and there is no participation fee.

Section IV. SELECTION
Art. 11. The selection will be made by a jury composed of representatives from Art Safari and Vichy, between September 30 and October 2, 2025.
Art. 12. Selection criteria:
• Relevance to the chosen theme and sub-theme;
• Artistic quality and originality;
• Coherence of the proposed concept.
Art. 13. Results will be announced on October 2, 2025, via email, as well as on the official channels of Art Safari and Vichy, and others.
Art. 14. The jury’s decision is final and cannot be contested.

Section V. PRIZES AND BENEFITS
Art. 15. Prizes totaling €5,500, as follows:
• First prize: €3,000;
• Five special prizes: €500 each.
Art. 16. The selected works will be exhibited as part of the #UnspokenWords exhibition at Art Safari, and promoted across all Art Safari and Vichy official channels.

Section VI. RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Art. 17. Participants assume responsibility for the ideas, images, and texts they present, in accordance with the copyright and intellectual property laws.
Art. 18. At the end of the exhibition, the works will be returned to the women artists, except for the one that receives the first prize, which will become the property of Vichy.
Art. 19. By participating, women artists grant the organizers a non-exclusive, free, and unlimited territorial license to use images of the works (photos, videos, promotional materials) exclusively for the purpose of promoting the project and related activities.
Art. 20. The organizers commit to crediting the women artists’ names in all public materials where their works appear.