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Antichambre is the anteroom of Design Duo Jutta Wacht and René Poell, aka Say Say Say, Inc., that acts as Space for Poetical and Critical Matters with temporary installations that come forward from between sensuality, technology, ethics, pop culture, and philosophy.

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Past Exhibitions

• Who decided that EROS is solely linked to the feminine and associated with the irrational and subjective, with emotions, passions, instincts?
• Who decided that LOGOS is solely linked to the masculine and associated with the function of thinking, the rational and objective, with reason, thought, order, logic?
• What is a Lady of Virtue? Does the Oxford English Dictionary record an equivalent expression for men?
• Can we always easily decipher and blend out language that unconsciously still perpetuates an unequal, demeaning, judgmental image of women?
• Can the feminine and masculine be expressions of deeper unification of opposites into a higher unity, as represented in alchemical symbolism?
• What forms of inequality are stabilized by the idea that women are naturally closer to care?
• How deeply does the history of female ascriptions reach into one's own sense of self?
• How is the distinction between to see and to be seen maintained, and what forms of inequality are stabilized through this seemingly simple division of roles?
• When do we see as many men in advertisements as women? In another Aion?
• Is engaging with history always an engagement with a male intellect?
• Would the perception of women and our notions of female beauty and desirability shift if men became infertile at the same time as women?
• Would the equation of fertility with beauty persist—and what conceptual framework would replace it?
• Can we please see more people who specialize in the impossible?
• What would it require to interrupt the inherited grammar of the gaze, so that seeing becomes reciprocal rather than hierarchical, and presence is no longer reduced to appearance?
• What does it mean to be continuously interpreted before one is even seen as a being?
• What forms of knowledge become possible when all sexes, genders, and embodied experiences are understood as equally human?
• Why was the biblical story of Susanna at Her Bath (Susanna and the Elders) interpreted for centuries primarily as a narrative of female virtue, truthful testimony, and the wisdom of the young Daniel—and not first and foremost as a story of male voyeurism, sexual threat, and the abuse of social power?
• How can a female gaze evolve if the feminine is still framed by the male gaze, which has developed over millennia?
• How does repetition of images train desire without ever naming it?
• Are we far more deeply indoctrinated than we thought?
• When can the female body be seen outside history's inherited gaze?
• Revolution or no revolution?
• Does Kant's belief that femininity and intellectual standing are incompatible—a view that, of course, dates back to antiquity—still extend into our own century, even as we try to deny it, believing that equality is already sufficiently advanced?
• Now after all, why is there a boy (and has always been) on Kinder Schokolade packaging?