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SYNTAX OF ABSENCE
by Debora Kaz
October/November 2025 @ Nitroglobus
I am happy and proud to welcome Debora Kaz back to Nitroglobus with another striking exhibition, part of her ongoing series 'Invisible Cities'. This time, she will use the entire gallery—both the Main Hall and the Annex—for her installation.
In this latest installment, while the faint outlines of the cities still linger in the background, they have grown more abstract. Instead, the female form steps forward—not just as subject, but as structure, language, and code. The images of women become syntax themselves, recompiled into the very fabric of the artwork.
Although Nitroglobus generally upholds a no-AI policy, I made a considered exception for Debora. Her use of artificial intelligence is neither aesthetic shortcut nor novelty—it is an essential, symbolic tool. Through it, she explores the boundaries between real and virtual, body and code, presence and absence.
I highly recommend reading Debora’s full artist statement—available in both English and Brazilian Portuguese—at the information stand in the gallery.
For now, let me leave you with the essence.
Special thanks to David Silence for the stunning exhibition poster, based on one of Debora’s images. It powerfully complements the atmosphere and concept of this show.
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Opening Party
📅 Monday, 27 October
🕛 1 PM SLT / 21:00 CET
🎵 Music by hEIN!
taxi: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunshine%20Homestead/38/22...
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Description by the artist:
Over time my work has evolved into SYNTAX OF ABSENCE in which the fusion between the real and the artificial becomes literal.
I have been developing a form of digital hybridism, combining photographs of a female avatar created by me within virtual worlds with artificial intelligence tools. Through selected textures, my own photographic material, and carefully written prompts, I seek an aesthetic in which these layers merge seamlessly — where the digital and the human contaminate each other until they become a single surface.
This operation is not merely technical; it is symbolic. The avatar is both extension and mirror: a body that does not age, a body that can be manipulated, a body that exists to question the limits of the image and the nature of the digitized feminine.
If in Invisible Cities women inhabited architectures and urban noise, here they become the very code itself. The body does not vanish - it is recompiled. The feminine becomes syntax, command, conscious noise.
Absence turns into language. Presence becomes data. And within this new system, the woman remains the same: striving to exist without being reduced to a file, an algorithm, or a consumable piece of information.
Debora Kaz
SPONSORED:
---Laced Pants: ABSENCE - Lustsuit (Comes in 6 colours --- Rigged for Legacy, Lara, Khara, Kupra & Reborn) Find it @ Sabbath Event
---Tattoo: ABSENCE - Elizabeth Tattoo (Comes in 5 variations and 3 different opacities) Find it @ Absence Mainstore
---Horns: SACRILEGE - BB Horns (Comes in 11 colours) Find it @ Sacrilege Mainstore
OTHER CREDITS:
---Hair: DOUX
---Eyes: REVERIE
---Nails: SUICIDAL UNBORN
---Top & Butterflies: LEIMOTIV
Sponsors
Hair - Wasabi Pony
Pants - Pixicat June Pants
Eyebrows - Reverie Penny Eyebrows @ Sabbath
Eyeshadow - Celesticat Apophis @ Sabbath
Earrings - Ruwe Polux Earrings @ Sabbath
Top - Opium Artful Top Cascabel @ Sabbath
Jacket - Absence Essential Jacket @ Sabbath
Kananaskis, Canada
It was June of 8 years ago when I, as a newly re-born birder after a 25-year absence from the pursuit/passion/hobby, saw my first Wilson’s Warbler. I recall being spellbound by this new ‘lifer’, not knowing what species it was, but knowing it wasn’t one I’d seen before and afterwards rushing back to my campsite to excitedly rifle through my (then mint) copy of John Acorn & Chris Fisher’s ‘Birds of Alberta’ to identify the mystery bird! Years later and also many birds later, I am happy to report that seeing this ‘Willy’ singing his heart out on a cool, breezy morning this past weekend left me no less thrilled than I was on that very first encounter almost a decade ago 😊.
"A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover."
— Charles Bukowski
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Wᴇ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ
Mᴀɴɢᴏ ʙᴀɴᴀɴᴀs!
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Jᴜsᴛ ᴛɪʟ Tᴏᴍᴏrrᴏᴡ! Gᴇᴛ ɪᴛ ᴡʜɪʟᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ ʟᴏᴠᴇʏs <3
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Sequoia - Chaos Eye Set @ Black Fair
Rama.Salon - Jenny Hair @ Equal10
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Lyrium - Banana Plushie @ Equal10