Male Extinction
by Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Nora Aurrekoetxea, Caterina De Nicola, Eva Gold, Miranda Secondari

The exhibition begins with a question: What might a future without men look like?
Recent studies by several geneticists suggest that the Y chromosome - a key factor in determining a person's gender - is starting to deteriorate. So, what could this mean for the future?
What is particularly intriguing, however, is a finding that, in some ways, overturns centuries of history and social narratives: evidence has emerged of a powerful role held by women dating as far back as the Stone Age.
A recent article published by the New Scientist Magazine highlights an important archaeological discovery that sheds new light on the roles of women in the Stone Age. The research indicates that women of that era often held prominent positions as rulers, warriors, hunters, and shamans. Often, however, the discovery of skeletal remains led researchers to presume they belonged to male individuals. In 2008 near Seville, Spain, archaeologists uncovered the burial of a young individual surrounded by...

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SITARA ABUZAR GHAZNAWI

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi (b. 1995, Ghazni, Afghanistan) lives and works in Basel, Switzerland.
Her recent Solo Exhibitions include I don’t know Sitara that well. She scares the hell out of me, Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin (2025); Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi & Sem Lala, Forde Geneva, Geneva; Public sculpture, Amore Basel, Basel (2024); Sin City, Auto Italia, London (2023); Don’t Build Picturesquely, (with Marina Xenofontos), Hot Wheels, Athens (2022); Hymn and Silence, LC Queisser, Tbilisi; LOVE/Terms and...

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NORA AURREKOETXEA

Nora Aurrekoetxea (1989, Bilbao - Basque Country), graduated in Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country and holding an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London, she also completed a postgraduate course in Sexology at In.ci.sex., Madrid (2011–2013), which directly informs her practice. During this period, she co-founded and co-directed OKELA, an artist-run space in Bilbao, fostering formal and discursive dialogues between artists from different generations of the Basque Country.
Solo exhibitions includes Madé van Krimpen,...

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CATERINA DE NICOLA

Caterina De Nicola is a visual artist and musician born in 1991 (Ortona, Italy) and based in Zurich.
After a BFA at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, she moved to Berlin to carry out a research project. Her work involves fiction, writing, sound and object investigation. She seeks to shape formal and discursive patterns by developing an analysis of symbols and motifs, as well as their circulation in a larger cultural system.
In her practice a post-postmodernist skepticism becomes a recurring mechanism through which generic images-symbols allow us to feel part of a common and...

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EVA GOLD

Eva Gold (b. 1994, Manchester, UK) lives and works in London, UK.
After completing her BA at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2016, Gold went on to complete a Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy of Art, London in 2019.
Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include: To be animal, Rose Easton London (2025); Shadow Lands, Silke Lindner, New York (2024); City of Rooms (part one) with Louise Bourgeois, Rose Easton, London (2023); City of Rooms (part two) Rose Easton at The Shop, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2023); Slow Dance, Eigen+Art Lab,...

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MIRANDA SECONDARI

Miranda Secondari is a choreographer and performer.
She obtained a degree in Garden and Landscape Architecture. During her studies, she came into contact with numerous artistic figures, including those who had a significant impact on her research, such as Romeo Castellucci, Yasmine Hugonnet, and Silvia Rampelli.
Her choreographic practice is oriented toward precise, time-extended movements that lead to the emergence of unexpected images and the attainment of a state of presence as a form of resistance. Her work on the body, between immobility and mobility, explores the dichotomy...

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WORKS
MALE EXTINCTION 4, 2021
75 x 55, mixed media and shirt
MALE EXTINCTION 4, 2021
75 x 55, mixed media and shirt
MALE EXTINCTION 4, 2021
75 x 55, mixed media and shirt
A PROPOSAL, 2021
150 x 145 x 11, steel, wood, plexiglass, fabric, plasticbags
A PROPOSAL, 2021
150 x 145 x 11, steel, wood, plexiglass, fabric, plasticbags
A PROPOSAL, 2021
150 x 145 x 11, steel, wood, plexiglass, fabric, plasticbags
BURUPEKO L, 2024
9 x 23 x 63, latex
BURUPEKO L, 2024
9 x 23 x 63, latex
BURUPEKO L, 2024
9 x 23 x 63, latex
SPOONING, 2022
14 x 14 x 23, bronze
SPOONING, 2022
14 x 14 x 23, bronze
SPOONING, 2022
14 x 14 x 23, bronze
SPOONING, 2022
14 x 14 x 23, bronze
ANILLO 6, 2022
4 x 2,5 x 5, bronze
ANILLO 14, 2022
5 x 1 x 2,5, bronze
BI ROLL BI, 2024
10 x 45 x 72, latex and ring
BI ROLL BI, 2024
10 x 45 x 72, latex and ring
BI ROLL BI, 2024
10 x 45 x 72, latex and ring
PIPE DREAMS, 2025
81 x 60 x 95, industrial kitchen, epoxy glue, ceramic vases, leather, iron, stainless steel
PIPE DREAMS, 2025
81 x 60 x 95, industrial kitchen, epoxy glue, ceramic vases, leather, iron, stainless steel
PIPE DREAMS, 2025
81 x 60 x 95, industrial kitchen, epoxy glue, ceramic vases, leather, iron, stainless steel
EDGEFALL, 2025
81,5 x 131,5 x 15, glass, iron, epoxy coating, marble dust
EDGEFALL, 2025
81,5 x 131,5 x 15, glass, iron, epoxy coating, marble dust
EDGEFALL, 2025
81,5 x 131,5 x 15, glass, iron, epoxy coating, marble dust
GOODNIGHT JESSICA, 2025
50 x 70 x 20, synthetic wigs, aluminium wire, steel bracket
GOODNIGHT JESSICA, 2025
50 x 70 x 20, synthetic wigs, aluminium wire, steel bracket
GOODNIGHT JESSICA, 2025
50 x 70 x 20, synthetic wigs, aluminium wire, steel bracket
CLOSED HOUSE, 2025
100 x 276 x 85, found aluminium frame, PVC, rubber, detritus, strip light, gel
CLOSED HOUSE, 2025
100 x 276 x 85, found aluminium frame, PVC, rubber, detritus, strip light, gel
CLOSED HOUSE, 2025
100 x 276 x 85, found aluminium frame, PVC, rubber, detritus, strip light, gel
ROOMS AVAILABLE, 2025
18 x 124 x 18, resin, fibreglass, perspex, aluminium, steel, LED, gel
ROOMS AVAILABLE, 2025
18 x 124 x 18, resin, fibreglass, perspex, aluminium, steel, LED, gel
ROOMS AVAILABLE, 2025
18 x 124 x 18, resin, fibreglass, perspex, aluminium, steel, LED, gel
SAFELIGHT, 2025
site specific installation, photo developing chemicals, developing trays, photography magazines, ringbinder containing contractual documents, loose pages torn from soft porn magazines, inkjet prints of pornographic images from the internet, inkjet prints of car advertisements from the internet, mattress with pornography stashed inside, prop phone, floorboards, wipe-clean armchair, vaseline, lighting gels (all materials sourced from former brothel and photographic darkroom located on the premises)
SAFELIGHT, 2025
site specific installation, photo developing chemicals, developing trays, photography magazines, ringbinder containing contractual documents, loose pages torn from soft porn magazines, inkjet prints of pornographic images from the internet, inkjet prints of car advertisements from the internet, mattress with pornography stashed inside, prop phone, floorboards, wipe-clean armchair, vaseline, lighting gels (all materials sourced from former brothel and photographic darkroom located on the premises)
SAFELIGHT, 2025
site specific installation, photo developing chemicals, developing trays, photography magazines, ringbinder containing contractual documents, loose pages torn from soft porn magazines, inkjet prints of pornographic images from the internet, inkjet prints of car advertisements from the internet, mattress with pornography stashed inside, prop phone, floorboards, wipe-clean armchair, vaseline, lighting gels (all materials sourced from former brothel and photographic darkroom located on the premises)
08.VERSIONE 1, 2025
performance,
08.VERSIONE 1, 2025
performance,
08.VERSIONE 1, 2025
performance,
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