Through The Glass

International Creative Women is pleased to present Through The Glass, a group exhibition featuring works by I. Barré, A. Bhattacharya, C. Caviquiolo, S. Cueva,  P. Franco, G. García-Avila, E. Greer, G. Laivacuma, D. Popella and P. Puthran.


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. 


The artists in this exhibition are exploring different mediums, techniques, themes and poetics that guide us through the glass.  From their works, we can relate to the subjectivities of the expatriate condition, the ways of seeing shaped by colonial and gender violences, the presences and absences connected to the built environment, the ironies of everyday life and the myths and prejudices that organise our societies.

The Artists

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March 13 - 31

The Social Hub

Eindhoven

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