Some Stories

Female artists from Egypt, Algeria, Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Turkey present constructions of female identity in film and video

In the video exhibition, female artists from different backgrounds expressed their individual narratives of femininity. They navigate the tensions between tradition and progress, regionalism and internationalism, exile and immigration, religious value systems and Western capitalist influences.

The films and videos tell subjective stories about the construction and deconstruction of female identity in tense environments and a space in between. The themes range from work as a moment of identification, to psychoanalytical interpretations of family structures, a mother-daughter relationship, and a documentary-style examination of the significance of pregnancy. Narrative, documentation and fiction come together in digital images to form a series of impressions demonstrating a wide variety of realities and visions of femininity.

The exhibition was subsequently shown at the Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten in Graz and, in a modified form, at MAGAZIN 4, Kunstverein Begrenz.