"Let’s pretend there’s a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let’s pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through".

Alice. Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

This art exhibition comprises works by ten international female artists living in The Netherlands and connected by Eindhoven’s artistic and creative environment. In common, they share stories crossed by their cultural identities and the (not so visible) barriers that prevent them from freely occupying spaces and places. Together, they suggest different perspectives for a world in which women can freely express their creative potential and build more solidary ways of living.

Glass materials, such as glass panes and windows, were historically inscribed with the physical properties that provide both transparency and isolation. They work as a medium for the passage of light and the visual world, becoming more evident when its surface is broken, cracked or covered with dirt or handprints. Glasses can also be coated with layers that confer different optical properties, making images more or less blurred, more or less focused or reflected by mirrors. People can wear eye-glasses to see better or use lenses to see the world around them through different perspectives, microscopes can make something small appear big and telescopes can make something distant look closer.

The glass as a metaphor can evoke meanings of invisibility, isolation, fragility, connection and control. The expression glass ceiling, for example, is used when a (invisible) barrier, based on a discrimination, prevents someone from achieving higher positions in an organisation. The glass transparency can also evoke a sense of openness and honesty, encouraging viewers to see through the surface of things to the deeper truths that lie beneath. 

Anindita Bhattacharya (India)

Christine Caviquiolo (Brazil)

Dora Popella (Hungary)

Eleanor Greer  (United States)

Guille Pistache (Mexico)

Guntra Lavaicuma (Latvia)

Ionna Barre (France)Patricia Franco (Peru)

Payal Puthran (India)

Sandra Cueva (Peru)