The sculpture Rise of the Nuns – here installed in an exhibition at the European University Institute, housed in a former monastery – attests to the way that gender relations have been latently present in utilities for centuries. The sculpture is made of antique roof tiles historically referred to as Monk and Nun tiles, which acquired their form from being moulded on a human thigh. In roofing, the bottom tiles are called Nuns and the tiles covering them are called Monks. Rise of the Nuns places this pattern upside down: with the nuns lying on top.