The situation existing in the modern world often suggests that it is now when new routes of gender problems are being defined. At the exhibition we shall review this issue on the basis of the 51st Venice Biennale (2005), which head curators for the first time ever were two women, Maria de Corral and Rosa Martinez. Obviously, gender issue was not the main theme of the Biennale, but it was an invisible stroke, a dashed line... And this is a certain track of mind.

Sure, in this context women’s question was raised much earlier and has already found its place in the classical art in the names of Valie Export, Louise Bourgeois, and other artists. However, we are also worried by gender issues concerning both sexes. The small PARAZIT association, to our own surprise, turned out to include boys only. Though in the gallery’s lifetime one could see many women artists, such as Evgeniya Konovalova, Vera Svetlova, Maria Kilina, Daria and Natalia Mikhailova, Alexandra Strotseva, Julia Berelovitch, and others.
We will leave the names out, but it seems that today there are certain tendencies for the artists to unite on the M/F principle. It is not that Queen Anne is dead, but today’s realities (no evaluation of the process is involved). In the 20th century many philosophers raised the gender issue, such as V.Rozanov, M.Foucault, J.Baudrillard and others. And you can notice one general tendency, which is mankind’s longing for Sex dissolution. We will try to react to this issue on the territory of art by inviting women artists whom we respect to the men’s team of PARAZIT. And by dividing the exhibition into two parts, Male and Female, each of us will try to share his own point of view on the issue specified above.