GRADO ZERO

Mountains Beyond Genders

Curated by Andrea Lerda and Linda Cottino
Opening: Monday 26th October at 6pm

 

With its long history of ascents, exploration, and conquests, the mountain has been portrayed as a privileged space for a certain understanding of virility: heroic, competitive, disciplined, and at times military. In this symbolic universe, long deemed naturally suited to men, women have frequently been excluded, marginalized, or treated as exceptions.

The exhibition Grado Zero. Mountains Beyond Genders, based on a dialogue between contemporary works and historical materials, stems from the need to decenter hegemonic masculinity, question the patriarchal genealogies of the mountain, and reflect on the relationship between patriarchy and the climate crisis. At the same time, it serves as a space for a fresh start, aiming to normalize the idea of an alliance between the masculine and the feminine, and guiding the way toward an achievable utopia: a mountain beyond gender.

From this perspective, the mountain is no longer merely a land to be conquered and exploited, but a space to be inhabited, protected, and re-imagined. It becomes the ground for a “relational posthuman ethics,” capable of recognizing the interdependence between bodies, communities, and life forms, while recentering the sense of commoning, the care for life, and our shared home.

 

Artists and filmmaker
Marwa Arsanios, Cleo Fariselli, Adriana Filippi, Kate Gilmore, Elena Goatelli, Anna Huix, Maria Lai, Silvia Margaria, Caterina Morigi, Micaela Piñero, Alessandro Scali, Kathrin Siegrist, Super Taus, Markus Vallazza, Amparo Viau, Ellen Vermeulen, Flaminia Veronesi, Ann-Christine Woehrl

Textual contributions to the exhibition curated by:
Michela Fusaschi, Full Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Roma Tre University

 

A project by: Museomontagna
With: CAI – Club Alpino Italiano, Città di Torino
With the contribution of:: Regione Piemonte, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Camera di Commercio di Torino, Fondazione CRT
With the sustain of: Pro Helvetia – Fondazione svizzera per la cultura
In collaboration with: Frauenmuseum Hittisau
As part of: Programma Sostenibilità Museomontagna

 

 

 

Caterina Morigi, Lettere Efesie (Dea Baubo I, II, III, IV, V), 2025. Incisione e intarsio, graniglia, 32 x 12 x 3 cm cadauna. Courtesy l’artista e Galleria Studio G7 Bologna. Foto Francesco Rucci

 

Sua Maestà la Regina Margherita ed il suo seguito. Dufourspitze. Punta Gnifetti dal Lysioch, 18 agosto 1893.
Stampa alla gelatina bromuro d’argento su carta politenata, 1998, 30,2 x 40,2 cm, da stampa originale al bromuro d’argento leggermente virata in seppia, da lastra alla gelatina bromuro d’argento, 30 x 40 cm (negativo n. 1589). Centro Documentazione Museo Nazionale della Montagna – CAI Torino

 

Super Taus, Super Taus (Untitled 1), 2014, video virale, a colori, sonoro, 2′ 16”.