HER ART IN ACTION
Free To Dream
The Feminine Gaze: What Do You Dream?
Picturing Our Inner Lives
9 March – 6 April
The 2025 edition of Her Art in Action focuses on how women depict and articulate their dreams. Faced with expectations around family, education, home life, work and community, women are expected to be many things by others. In this exhibition, the commissioned artists delve into the dreams of women in different circumstances and at different stages of life, showing where expectations and aspirations converge and diverge, creating a nuanced portrait of how women see their individual and collective futures and their role within them.
In each of the vignettes, the artists express the complicated internal negotiations that take place throughout life and how this struggle is manifested through thoughts, emotions and actions. In many cases there is no resolution; the tensions between inner and outer worlds remain, and even in the most extreme circumstances, their strength is given to others as an act of care, love and sacrifice.
Curated by Ayna Moazzen and Lesley Gray
Artists

Aliya the Mushroom

Arzu Jabrayilova

Aygun Bakhshiyeva

Ayten Abdullayeva

Dilyara Kaipova

Fidan Abilova

Fidan Humbatli

Fidan Nazimgizi

Gunel Ravilova

Jala Azizova

Jamila Ahmadova

Kafiya Eyvazova

Lali Binyatova

Minira

Natela Grigalashvili

Nazrin Mammadova

Nigar Rahmanova

Sabina Mukhudinova

Sabina Shikhlinskaya

Saida Mirzayeva

Sitara Ibrahimbayli

Sura Madatova

Tamira Ibrahim

Ulkar Aliyeva

Ulviyya Iman

Zarrin Sanvar
Events
Attendance by invitation only.

Workshop - Registration required
Workshop - Registration required

Portfolio review - Registration required
Public event - On Contemporary Lithuanian Art & the Art Market

Public event - Colonial Heritage and Contemporary Art in Azerbaijan

PUBLIC EVENT - TBA
Panelists:
- Mansura Mammadaliyeva
- Tayyiba Heydarova
- Afsana Tahirova
Moderator: Ayna Moazzen

Public event - The History, Symbolism, and Modern Craft of Uzbek Ikat