Tbilisi museum hosts display of Georgian women’s stories
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A Tbilisi photo exhibition opening today will present women from across the country whose life stories have gone viral on social media in recent months.
Opening at the Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Georgia’s capital, the display will exhibit photographs of women featured in the project, Women from Georgia.
Launched on social media late last year, the project aims to bring stories of life experiences, struggles and dreams from a selected group of women living across Georgia.
Keti Mouravidze, 16, spoke through the Women from Georgia platform about challenges facing women in her village of Kvemo Alvani in eastern Georgia. Photo: Nino Baidauri/Women from Georgia.
The experiences shared by the 150 featured individuals became subjects of widespread discussion on social media since the launch of the platform in October 2016.
The selected women include citizens from Georgia’s big cities as well as remote towns and villages. The respondents range from young women’s right activists to pensioners to military officers.
Their stories include struggles with established conservative norms in society, the quest for gender equality as well as tales of achievements in the face of daily challenges facing them.
Tbilisi resident Nino Kiknadze told project organisers her story of caring about children with disabilities. Photo: Nino Baidauri/Women from Georgia.
Organisers of the initiative said the online platform was created to give women a voice for telling their stories instead of reading about them in works by male literary authors.
When a woman is thus represented [by male writers], very often, the true and genuine stories are lost or distorted because women’s stories, their concerns, are unique to women only”.
These are stories about the women from Georgia — distinct, and unidentified and invisible until now”, said their summary of the project.
Khatia Gogaladze, a 20-year old student of the National Defence Academy, has been highlighted with her story for Women from Georgia. Photo: Salome Tsopurashvili/Women from Georgia.
Some of the individuals highlighted via the platform will be present for the opening of the MoMA event today, with visitors able to meet and talk to them.
In addition, the event will host a presentation of a book Women from Georgia that features the collected stories.
Biologist Nana Garjikauli, 53, is a resident of Georgia’s eastern town Telavi who was featured in the project earlier this year. Photo: Nino Baidauri/Women from Georgia.
The Women from Georgia project is organised by Georgia-based women’s initiative group A Woman’s Voice. It is funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) with the support of the National Democratic Institute (NDI).
The exhibition at the MoMA venue will be open for visitors for one month.
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