Mouth Wide Open for Valentine – Ethan Lieutet Khnafo

Focus is centered on the homosexual struggle to find love in a hyper-sexualized, digital landscape, where the touch of the flesh dominates over a romantic bond.

Plunge into the hidden corners of the untold at the intersection of pain and pleasure. Doors are shushed and voice tamed. From romantic injustices to social injustices, it is a world where brutality encounters care. The gallery turned into an uncanny space where cupid exists. When one body meets another, tenderness becomes flesh itself. An act of empathy. Warm skin comforts and consumes at once.

Stay ready for the beating of a heart and the sharpness of a knife to the soft touch of feather… Will I ever find true love? Will I die alone?

Ethan’s exhibition included sculptural works made by combining synthetic materials like styrofoam and vinyl with cured meat and live animals. He also paired his physical work with a long-duration performance where viewers covered his body in love notes and inspired by the meat market, by intimacy, by desire, by pain and pleasure. Flesh abound.

‘Mouth Wide Open for Valentine’ was presented from 13 February – 08 March 2026.

everything but, the spectacle – Özgür Deniz Koldaş

the show is concerned with itself, and its very own becoming. the “spectacle” with its surroundings, passe-partout, visitors, and critique yet to come. 

it’s about the runway–not so much the clothes, but its democratization, the screenshot, and the right to it. it also aims for humor within its 15m2 space… just the right amount.  and, of course, it hopes to be finished, presentable, reflective, bold, charming, compelling, beautiful, desirable, impressive, cohesive, humble, curated, introspective, well-executed, evocative, detailed, memorable…

Having a particular interest in fashion and its visual outputs – where images are generated and circulated at an extreme pace – he hopes to find focus within the visual clutter of our times, questioning our positioning to the images we consume. Diverting from embodied spectatorship, Özgür’s work recontextualizes the digital gaze as refuge from the flux; where pixels are upcycled, democratized, and rendered personal.

Along with sculpture works and textual assemblages, Özgür presented an accompanying publication that directs attention at the fashion industry’s representations and the artist’s use of the screenshot to find focus in the excess, and pairs his words with a body-focused essay by Chet Bugter and an introduction by Nathaniel Feldmann. The book was designed, edited, and hand bound by Özgür.

‘everything but, the spectacle’ was presented from 8 November – 13 December 2025.

CTRL + V – Victor Studulski

‘CTRL+V’ by Victor Studulski, immersive installation that explores the uneasy relationship between our online personas and physical selves. Studio Takeover is transformed into The Chat Room, a surreal space blurring reality and virtuality. Familiar furniture takes on uncanny forms, incorporating 3D-printed fragments of Victor’s body. Live CCTV feeds use facial tracking and AR filters to distort visitors’ reflections, exposing the dissonance between self-image and algorithmic perception.

Figures known as The Gatekeepers of Homogenization patrol the space – identical, polished, and filtered representations of societal conformity. An empty costume invites visitors to step into this role. Alongside them, The Handler dolls line the entrance, symbolizing how social media commodifies identity. By turning digital anxiety into tangible form, Victor critiques the systems shaping our sense of self and invites us to reflect on how we might reclaim agency in an algorithm-driven world.

‘Ctrl + V’ was presented from 7 March to 27 April 2025.

Documenting Dyke: Fictive Histories – Sterre Pomper

‘Documenting Dyke: Fictive Histories’, an imagined archive by Sterre Pomper that is centered on the often overlooked and under documented history of lesbian realities. Sterre leverages AI technology in order to fill these archival gaps, generating scenes from clubs and bars, parks and gyms, afters and intimate moments and reproducing them as polaroids and screenprints. What results is a kaleidoscope of dyke culture presented in an immersive installation that challenges and transcends traditional modes of archiving and documentation. Through the use of fictional archiving, Sterre presents a solution to address the vulnerability of lesbian representation and transforms archiving into a creative process that actively shapes and redefines the histories we have been told. 

‘Documenting Dyke: Fictive Histories’ was presented from 8 November to 15 December 2024.