Inês Pargana

Inês Pargana

Inês Pargana In a simple tavern — a place where truths often rise more easily than steam from a warm meal — two women sit together, laughing with the kind of freedom that comes only when we feel utterly safe. They are nothing alike: one carries the calm of tradition,...
Natalie Karpushenko

Natalie Karpushenko

Natalie Karpushenko Women from different corners of the world came together — from Africa, Europe, Asia. Among them were both Ukrainian and Russian women. They lay with their bare bodies on sharp, glass-like fragments of hardened lava. It was painful. The lava left...
Katya Frolova

Katya Frolova

Katya Frolova Balance is the first superficial association with the word “peace”. Yet, upon deeper reflection, balance is merely a fleeting moment of stillness before a sudden inclination towards one of the polarities. We are perpetually in motion, and...
Oteng Keabetswe

Oteng Keabetswe

Oteng Keabetswe “Lerato la Malatsi a Pele is my attempt to search for peace within the tenderness of beginnings. Those first days of love carry a quiet calm, a softness where two people meet without history, without pressure, without the noise that comes later....
Doaa Bsis

Doaa Bsis

Doaa Bsis “Father and I” expresses a delicate and fragile form of peace — a peace born from the body, from the earth, and from the complex relationships that shape identity. Within the nostalgic landscape of home, facing the living mound of soil, a performative ritual...
Mahdiyeh Afshar Bakeshloo

Mahdiyeh Afshar Bakeshloo

Mahdiyeh Afshar Bakeshloo In this image, a person is surrounded by layers of white plates simple yet numerous stacked like overlapping coverings that prevent us from seeing the inner depth of a human being at first glance. This arrangement can symbolize the complex...
Annie Kurkdjian

Annie Kurkdjian

Annie Kurkdjian The work evokes a vision of peace and understanding. The figures, closely gathered around a single book suggest that peace begins with unity, when individuals come together to listen, learn and understand. In this silent, intimate moment, peace is not...
Mohammed Ohaj

Mohammed Ohaj

Mohammed Ohaj “My understanding of artistic creation is changing. Instead of focusing on human suffering as an artistic theme, I now have the opportunity to explore human cultures and the beauty of their diversity as artistic motifs.” Mohammed Ohaj is a...
Jo Morten Kåven

Jo Morten Kåven

Jo Morten Kåven Juoksáhkká is one of the three daughters of Máttaráhkká (Mother Earth) in Sámi shamanism. The two other daughters are Sáráhkká and Uksáhkká. Juoksáhkká always has a bow and arrow, because her name means “The (hunting) Goddess with the Bow”...
Anat Wegier

Anat Wegier

Anat Wegier “If a miracle were to happen tonight and I woke tomorrow with a sense of peace, it would not be the soft or effortless kind we often imagine. For me, peace emerges only after walking through difficulty — through the uncomfortable, the bitter, the...