{"id":79786,"date":"2026-05-11T13:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/79786\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:39:13","slug":"brussels-photography-show-challenges-gender-stereotypes-in-ukraine-and-caucasus-euobserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/79786\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels photography show challenges gender stereotypes in Ukraine and Caucasus \u2013 EUobserver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Against the historic backdrop of Brussels\u2019 Mont des Arts, a new open-air exhibition in Brussels, running until mid-June, is challenging the traditional gaze on eastern European and Caucasian female identity \u2013 where the path to gender equality is lined with mines of violence and discrimination.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Many Faces of Womanhood<\/a>\u2019, organised by the UN and the EU, captures the multifaceted lives of women across Armenia, Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine as they single-handedly raise families, make art, earn a living, and join the front lines to fight for their countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

From wrestling world champion Irina R\u00eengaci<\/a> to Ukrainian sniper and journalist Olena Bilozerska<\/a>, the 36 works on display do not shy away from the complexity of the modern female experience \u2013 bringing together subjects that overcame strict gender traditions.<\/p>\n

As deputy regional director of UN Women Elisa Fernandez Saenz told EUobserver, it\u2019s a spotlight on \u201cWomen in their diverse roles, women in their complexities.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The timing of the exhibition is no coincidence. Fernandez describes the project as a necessary intervention during a period of global \u201cgender backlash\u201d marked by a conservative shift in some regions where gender equality is increasingly seen as \u201ca threat.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Deputy regional director of UN Women Elisa Fernandez Saenz presenting the exhibit\u2019s opening. Source: Gaia Neiman<\/p>\n

During the opening of the exhibition on Friday (8 May), Laurence Gillois, who works for the UN Women office in Brussels, celebrated the stories behind the images as an emblem of progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeeply-rooted stereotypes continue to influence progress<\/a> and outcomes, both in economic participation, in leadership, and in freedom from violence,\u201d Gillois said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The images will remain on show until 14 June, when they will be moved around between the countries of their subjects.<\/p>\n

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Olga Ivaschenko, the artist behind the lens of all 36 photographs, has been capturing the Ukrainian front lines as a photojournalist and found a connection with a lot of her subjects through shared resistance<\/a> in times of conflict.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Against the historic backdrop of Brussels\u2019 Mont des Arts, a new open-air exhibition in Brussels, running until mid-June,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[5754,211,210,33282,18519,16029,18517,16027,33280,18518,16028,33281],"class_list":["post-79786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-typedefinedterm","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-identifier24","tag-identifier4401","tag-identifier4403","tag-nameeu-and-the-world","tag-namesociety","tag-nameukraine","tag-termcodeeu-and-the-world","tag-termcodesociety","tag-termcodeukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116556225942668902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}